The Power of Eckhart Tolle's Now
Spirituality requires no belief at all
Reply to a buddy on facebook regarding my post on beliefs.
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I didn’t say beliefs were bad, I just said they have very little value in the world of health.
Having beliefs is fine. The challenge comes when your beliefs have you.
And regarding spirituality…
Spirituality requires no belief at all. Religion requires belief. But spirituality requires experience.
Do you believe that the fire is hot? No, of course not. You know it is. You don’t need to believe it is hot. You just put your had close to it and you know for sure.
In the same way when you experience stillness, consciousness and the present moment, you know their true power. They don’t require any belief what-so-ever.
Belief is only required in situations where we have not had first had experience.
If you have first hand experience you KNOW. You don’t believe.
New tumblr
I use tumble to publish this blog. It’s simple, free, and the interface rocks.
Tumblr just released a new a new beta version of their next update. To me the biggest win is that it works great on the iPhone.
Big ups to the tumblr team.
Ron Suskind Alleges War Fought On False Premises
Fresh Air from WHYY, August 7, 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind says the Bush administration buried critical information in the lead-up to the Iraq war.
In his new book, The Way of the World, Suskind writes about a secret meeting in early 2003 in which intelligence officials were told by Iraq’s intelligence chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush, that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. According to his book, the Bush administration then buried the report.
Suskind also alleges that the White House forged a letter from Habbush that linked Iraq to the attacks on Sept. 11. However, two of Suskind’s sources now deny that a fake document was produced.
Suskind is the author of The One Percent Doctrine and A Hope in the Unseen. Previously, he worked as the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal.