Towards an Abundant Life ...

Driving lately, I've been listening to Eckert Tolle's "Living a Life of Inner Peace," on CD.

Among many pearls of wisdom he notes that "Life is NOW ... " and acknowledges the inter-connectedness of the entire universe with life ...

But one startling piece was when he was speaking of finding gratefulness in the face of an abundant life - a life we already have.

He notes that we don't have to be grateful, but appreciate in gratitude what is around us as it is ... Tolle observes that in that place of mindfulness we recognize that we have ABUNDANT LIFE ... he then delves into Christian Theology when he says:

"The expression Jesus used, 'I want you to have life, and I want you to have it abundantly,' Jesus said 'abundant life,' he said, 'The DEPTHS of life, the depths of ALIVENESS.' He was not talking about MORE things, not that kind of abundance. he did not say 'I promise you consumer goods and shopping malls." Because when we speak of abundance we think of more things - NO DEEPER. So the abundance, even if you only have ONE object or two objects in your life, you give them attention - you look - you touch, and when you give attention DON'T use them as a means to end or some kind of self story around it, and say - 'look at me' ... pure, give something attention without self, just attention. Acknowledge its being. Look at it, touch it, pick it up, see it ... Immediately when you give something attention a gratefulness comes with that - an aliveness. That's ABUNDANCE, and then because it's the depths of abundance that's ABUNDANT LIFE. Ultimately you're getting in touch with that which is without form in you ... "

In THIS moment life is abundant and life simply is ...

Acceptance of this is what it is about ... acceptance of what is, is living in The NOW, and that's where I am ...

Dayenu !!