Living Is Dreaming

𝐊𝐚𝐨𝐫𝐮 𝐘𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐚

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Question: The idea of enthusiasm plays a vitally important role in your work and approach to life. Why?

Eckhart Tolle: There are three ways of awakened doing. If you are not in any one of these three modalities — the modalities of awakened doing — you are not aligned with life. You are not taking responsibility for the present moment, and you should stop doing what you are doing.

One modality is acceptance — to be in inner acceptance of what you have to do. You may not be able to enjoy it…

The second modality is enjoyment. You are one with the present moment, and you enjoy even relatively insignificant or routine things…

Enthusiasm, the third modality of awakened doing, is when the universe creates through you. You are involved in a creative act. You are bringing something new into this world. When that energy comes in, you feel an intense aliveness that flows into what you do. That is enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves…

You have a goal. You know where you are going. The goal has its importance. But the doing is what is truly fulfilling…the doing is intensely fulfilling, and it is the essence of enthusiasm.

~ Eckhart Tolle

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