All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are caused by too much future and not enough presence. ~ Echart Tolle
Indoor Gardens © Peggy Nolan
You have no idea how much I needed to read this today. Thanks for sharing.
Happy SITS Saturday Sharefest (on Monday)!
Hi Peggy! Perfect! Love this quote – well I love Eckhart altogether! I remember Oprah asking him if he had ANY problems? He said no, he didn’t CREATE them! I think of that often too and try not to create any of my own – it really helps!
Hugs of thanks!
suZen
Hi SuZen!
How much of what we struggle through we create ourselves! Over on my other blog, http://thestepmomstoolbox.com, I’m re-running a series of articles based on this very thought!
Loved your letter to Santa…I sure will be commenting when I get home tonight!
Peggy, this quote actually got me to stop simply browsing and sit up and take notice. I love how simply it is stated and how it addresses the dangers of dwelling too much on either the past or the future. Thank you for the reminder to simply be present!
Hi Daphne!
When I read this quote this morning, it made me sit up and take notice, too!
(I’ll post on your blog when I get home, can’t leave a comment on it from my work computer…you have a very thought provoking post!)
Very nice Peggy. Wonderful quote and beautiful picture.
Thanks Angelia! I’ve been thinking about you and hope you are doing well!
Hi Peggy,
Awesome picture and quote! I was just telling someone yesterday about how negativity causes so much stress which ends up harming the body.
By the way, have you seen the movie “The Guitar”? It is a movie about how a woman is diagnosed with terminal cancer and has only two months to live. She decides to spend those two months doing everything she wants. She ends up curing herself from the cancer and creating a life that is reflective of her truth. It is a very powerful film. It is racy in some parts which might offend some people but it was not offensive in my mind. For some reason, I thought you might find it interesting.
Hope all is awesome!
Hi Nadia,
I’m definitely going to have to check this movie out – I’m an ardent believer that what we think about, we bring about!
Stress builds up so much toxcity in our bodies, our minds and our spirits! That’s not to say all stress is bad but I think everyone reading here knows the kind of stress I’m talking about – the kind that keeps you awake at 2AM or gives you a sick feeling in your gut. I ate toxic stress for breakfast, lunch and dinner…my own cancer diagnosis didn’t surprise me, but I was happy that by the time I was diagnosed, I had already “cured” myself by divorcing the toxic stress
Enjoy today!
Peggy,
Love your post, and love the comments as well. Since what we focus on blossoms, I try hard to ignore negativity and the only way I know to do that is to be grateful for the present moment.
I love Suzen’s comment–Echart said he didn’t have problems because he didn’t create any. Exactly! My youngest can be dramatic and emotional and before I let myself be caught up in it, I take a breath and ask her, what exactly is the problem? And there truly isn’t any. Diffuses the tension right away.
I will check out Daphne’s blog, because thought provoking is always good:)
And Nadia–I will definitely have to find that movie. I’m sure there are many lessons in it.
Thank you for sharing such wisdom today:)
Hi Joy!
You and I have the same type of drama creating daughters
My husband is brilliant when he asks the same question, “How is this a problem?” It’s become one of my favorite questions to ask!
Amen! Great quote by a great author & inspirational man.
LOVE the picture, too; thanks, Peggy!
I thought of you again today during yoga, and actually had a moment of true mindfulness and present moment awareness. How fitting!
I love that you are doing yoga! How awesome you had a moment of true mindfulness and present moment awareness! I LOVE when that happens!!
May you have many, many more of those moments!
Thank you for this moment of bliss, Peggy! I like this quote very much along with the vibrant picture you chose to accompany it!
Thank you Jodi!
There was a time when I would have soooo wanted to hit poor Eckhart.
I would have asked him if he was married, I would have asked him if he had children, a job, a mortgage.
AND then tell him he had no right to say things like that because he did not know what he was talking about.
Ohh, how I would have been deaf to his conversation and fighting him every which way.
Now I am slowly understanding about creating drama, creating my own problems.
I love how Joy approached her youngest and yes I now can approach (most) of my own dramas that way.
And isn’t that indeed freeing and creating energy.
I have wasted so much time with useless drama.
Way to go Peggy, way to go if we want a productive and awesome life.
I will no longer hit him but kiss him, and that might make him still a poor Eckhart, being accosted by a strange woman
Love ya!
Peggy
I love it!
He’s definitely a clever ‘un. I like how you have to chill out and calm down just to be on his same wavelength before you can even catch his message. If your brain’s moving too fast you can’t even hear it.
Dear Tattytiara,
HOW TRUE! We do have to chill out and calm down to soak in Master Echart’s message! It’s probably why I like reading him in the morning or right after some time on my yoga mat. I need to be in the right frame of mind to receive his beautiful message!
Peggy,
This is wonderful. I read his book and then bought the CD’s which are going in my car today! Thanks for the uplifting and snowy time here. I hope you’re enjoying your holidays. xo
Love the quote…it really speaks to me. Especially now
Very nice post and comments. I enjoyed both. Came back to read them again. Thought provoking. Thank you.