“In each person’s life there comes a time when he or she pursues growth and expansion on the level of form. This is when you strive to overcome limitation such as physical weakness or financial scarcity when you acquire new skills and knowledge, or through creative action bring something new into this world that is life-enhancing for yourself as well as others.
When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, that Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself when there is joy and aliveness in what you do. And, of course, you cannot be present unless you become friendly with the present moment. That is the basis for effective action, uncontaminated by negativity.
Form means limitation. We are here not only to experience limitation but also to grow in consciousness by going beyond limitation. Some limitations can be overcome on an external level.
There may be other limitations in your life that you have to learn to live with. They can only be overcome internally.
Everyone will encounter them soon or later. Those limitations either keep you trapped in egoic reaction, which means intense unhappiness or you rise above them internally by uncompromising surrender to what is.
That is what they are here to teach. The surrendered state of consciousness opens up the vertical dimension in your life, the dimension o
f depth. Something will then come forth from that dimension into this world, something of infinite value that otherwise would have remained unmanifested.
Some people who surrendered to severe limitation became healers or spiritual teachers. Others work selflessly to lessen human suffering or bring some creative gift into this world.”
A New Earth – Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, Eckhart Tolle, p. 210-211.
