I’ve just started reading the book of Eckhart Tolle: “A new earth” – for the second time. I naturally have ended up on the side with the title “The joy of being”. I chose to pause a bit here. Let it all sink in. It is not easily read – this book. It forces me to go through my deepest feelings and emotions. It forces me to learn, to learn from my heart – not from my mind.

That is the most difficult aspect. No planning. No thinking. How on earth is this possible? Oh – I forgot. In the new earth this is possible. I am not yet there.

Throughout the book I’ve been practicing soul searching. I have been looking for my true identity behind my ego, I have been preparing to raise my child with recognition (the child I am yet to make) and I have accepted my role and responsibility as a part of the collective female pain-body.

It is exhausting to think about how we all influence our surroundings by only being. All these energies that float about. It makes me want to protect myself even more that my instinct tells me to. But then again, I awaken to see the opportunities. How beautiful is it not to be able to influence someone in good ways by only being, by being in joy.

Yes. Here lies the clue. A positive approach to life is all it takes. A smile to a stranger in the street or a hello to the neighbor you actually don’t know. Such small efforts, such powerful outcomes. 

As Eckhart Tolle so nicely describes it in his book: “The joy of being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event – through anything that happens.. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.”