Contemporary Teachers

Great teachers have the power to illuminate our lives. They help to point the way, lifting us to higher levels of understanding through their ability to convey sacred wisdom, simply and eloquently.

Their gift of a true teacher adds clarity to our own journey. Here are few thoughts from renowned author Eckhart Tolle:

-Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

-The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

-Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

-The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

And from the author Michael Bernard Beckwith:

-The enlightened give thanks for what most people take for granted… As you begin to be grateful for what most people take for granted, the vibration of gratitude makes you more receptive to good in your life.

-I’m available to what wants to evolve and emerge through me and I’m willing to practice and embody what that takes for it to do so.

-Within our core self is an indelible blueprint of unrivaled individuality—the singular being that each of us exists to express. In this three-dimensional movie called “Life” there are no stand-ins, body doubles, or understudies—no one can fill in for us by proxy! Realization of this truth alone eliminates the need to imitate, conform, limit, or betray our loyalty to the originality of Self. Imagine the relief of removing your carefully crafted masks fashioned by societal forms of conditioning and instead responding to what comes into your experience directly from your Authentic Self. One of the first principles to honor in your relationship with yourself is to respect and trust your own inner voice. This form of trust is the way of the heart, the epitome of well-being.

-You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.

-I believe that you’re great, that there’s something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, there’s something that is within you, there’s power within you, that’s greater than the world. It will begin to emerge.

Words of Wisdom from Michael Singer, author of The Untethered Soul:

-The spiritual journey is one of constant transformation. In order to grow, you must give up the struggle to remain the same, and learn to embrace change at all times.

-No matter who we are, life is going to put us through the changes we need to go through. The question is: Are we willing to use this force for our transformation? I saw that even very intense situations don’t have to leave psychological scars, if we are willing to process our changes at a deeper level.

-I am so grateful that surrender had taught me to willingly participate in life’s dance with a quiet mind and an open heart.

-You must realize that when you defend yourself, you are really defending your walls. There is nothing else to defend in there.

-There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind—you are the one who hears it. If you don’t understand this, you will try to figure out which of the many things the voice says is really you. People go through so many changes in the name of “trying to find myself.” They want to discover which of these voices, which of these aspects of their personality, is who they really are. The answer is simple: none of them.

-There is no need for false solidity when you are at peace with the universal expanse of your true Being.

-There are two ways you can live: you can devote your life to staying in your comfort zone, or you can work on your freedom. In other words, you can devote your whole life to the process of making sure everything fits within your limited model, or you can devote your life to freeing yourself from the limits of your model.