After I saw a Reel from Eckhart Tolle on Instagram, the quote above came to my mind again. I often think if only this or that would be different, I could relax. But in the next moment, I shake my head and think again that nothing will improve just because a particular situation is over. Maybe it will be short-term, but since it is my thinking that labels a situation as difficult or challenging, the challenge is always with me.

On that Instagram Reel, Edgar Tolle said: “The egoic part is wanting something. So, it comes not from a place of fullness but from neediness, from a sense of “not enough”.” It conditions everything and makes you depend on the quality of the circumstances. It wants to convince you that you are the victim and the one who needs to take responsibility. That’s why the point of “I feel relaxed because the circumstances are in my favor” will never last or not be there at all. Because if you have the attitude to make yourself depend on circumstances or even other people’s attitudes, that peace will never come.

Like I said last Monday, Life happens… The difference between living a life in peace and contentment or restlessness and discontentment depends not on the circumstances but on the inner concept of understanding that life will always happen. Once we accept that life is a string of (unexpected) changes, of lifting us or throwing us off our feet, the circumstances might not be different, but they are much better to handle. Because at the moment when we see life as something that happens instead of something we depend on, we don’t identify with the circumstances anymore and can lift ourselves above them. Less whining, less looking back, less complaining but standing up, dusting yourself off, looking at the horizon, and walking on.

In Love and Light