So be true to life
by being true to your inner purpose. As you become present
and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged
with spiritual power. At first there may be no noticeable
change in what you do--only the how changes. Your primary
purpose is now to enable consciousness to flow into what you
do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve
through the doing. Whereas the notion of purpose before was
always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that
can only be found in the present, through the denial of time.
and a different passage:
As you already know,
your secondary or outer purpose lies within the dimension of
time, while your main purpose is inseparable from the Now and
therefore requires the negation of time. How are they
reconciled? By realizing that your entire life journey
ultimately consists of the step you are taking at this
moment. there is always only this one step, and and so you
give it your fullest attention. This doesn't mean you don't know
where you are going, it just means the step is primary, the
destination secondary. And what you encounter at your
destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one
step. Another way of putting it: What the
future holds for your depends on your state of consciousness now.
~ Eckhart Tolle
"I can find
only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours, and
God's. (For me, the word God means
"reality." Reality is God, because it
rules. Anything that's out of my control, your control, and
everyone else's control – I call that God's business.)
Much of our
stress comes from mentally living out of our own business.
When I think, "You need to get a job, I want you to be
happy, you should be on time, you need to take better care of
yourself," I am in your business. When I'm worried
about earthquakes, floods, war, or when I will die, I am in God's
business. If I am mentally in your business or in God's
business, the effect is separation. Being mentally in your
business keeps me from being present in my own. To think
that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my
business and is the cause of stress, anxiety and fear.
If you understand
the three kinds of business enough to stay in your own business,
it could free your life in a way that you can't even
imagine. The next time you're feeling stress, ask yourself
whose business you're in mentally, and you may burst out
laughing!"