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Im feeling depressed, suffering alot now, always despised by people around me and can't get out of my insomnia. I hate my life, seems like i have to face such disdain from people my whole life everywhere. The feeling is bad, there's always something there preventing me from succeeding or even having the ability to work hard.
My peers dun understand my problems and they keep on thinking im purposely not performing, its always like this hard to continue -
u need a vacation
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Think of yourself asOriginally posted by ChenW33:Im feeling depressed, suffering alot now, always despised by people around me and can't get out of my insomnia. I hate my life, seems like i have to face such disdain from people my whole life everywhere. The feeling is bad, there's always something there preventing me from succeeding or even having the ability to work hard.
My peers dun understand my problems and they keep on thinking im purposely not performing, its always like this hard to continue
a person who lost a hand
a person who lost his eyesight
a person who lost his both limbs since birth
the cat wandering around in void decks ,scavenging food
the cat who sleep under the drain
maybe u will see as human u are better off then them ?or as a person who have no disability in life ?
my take is maybe try not to force too hard on yourself ,be what you are at this moment of time , try to share your problem with your peer
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Hi ChenW33, long time never chat.
Regarding depression in general..
How to alleviate personal suffering?
You may also wish to speak to a counsellor about your situation, but it is essential that you practise the principals of dharma in life and not be caught up any situations.Originally posted by An Eternal Now:Buddhism will definitely help if you apply the principles in your life. Therefore you should study more about Buddhism and practise it. You can seek (dharma) advise from a Buddhist teacher. You should also try practising Meditation - if you cannot practise meditation or focus your mind, you should try chanting (i.e Namo Di Zhang Wang Pu Sa... Namo Di Zhang Wang Pu Sa..) which is also a form of meditation that is easier.
You should also read some inspiring and transformative books like The Power of Now (the author used to undergo suicidal depression and anxiety). There are also many other good books on advises to deal with depression, anxiety, hard and difficult times - like those from Pema Chodron. There are many other books I'm sure, but I did not read many books.
For you, I believe if you can truly practise the principals of dharma, your life situation will change for the much better. -
Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
[b]The Power of Now; Eckhart Tolle, Excerpt:
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by to much future, not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, not enough presence.
Most people find it difficulty to believe that a state of consciousness totally free of all negativity is possible. And yet this is the liberated state to which all spiritual teachings point. It is the promise of salvation, not in an illusory future by right here and now.
You may find it hard to recognise that time is the cause of your suffering or your problems. You believe that they are caused by specific situations in your life, and seen from a conventional viewpoint, this is true. But until you have dealt with the basic problem-making dysfunction of the mind - its attachment to past and future and denial of the Now - problems are actually interchangeable. If all your problems or perceived causes of suffering or unhappiness were miraculously removed for your today, but you had not become more present, more conscious, you would soon find yourself with a similar set of problems or causes of suffering, like a shadow that follows you wherever you go. Ultimately, there is only one problem: the time-bound mind itself.
I cannot believe that I could ever reach a point where I am complete free of my problems.
You are right. You can never reach that point because you are at that point now.
There is no salvation in time. You cannot be free in the future. Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.
Finding The Life Underneath Your Life Situation
I don't see how I can be free now. As it happens, I am extremely unhappy with my life at the moment. This is a fact, and I would be deluding myself if I tried to convince myself that all is well when it definitely isn't. To me the present moment is very unhappy; it is not liberating at all. What keeps me going is the hope or possibility of some improvement in the future.
You think that your attention is in the present moment when it's actually taken up completely by time. You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.
What you refer to as your "life" should be more accurately be called your "life situation." It is psychological time: past and future. Certain things in the past didn't go the way you wanted them to go. You are still resisting what happened in the past, and now you are resisting the is. Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.
It is true that my present life situation is the result of things that happened in the past, but it is still my present situation, and being stuck in it is what makes me unhappy.
Forget about your life situation for a while and pay attention to your life
What is the difference?
Your life situation exists in time.
Your life is now.
Your life situation is mind-stuff.
Your life is real.
Find the "narrow gate that leads to life." It is called the Now. Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have any problem at this moment. Not tomorrow or in ten minutes, but now. Do you have a problem now?
When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation.
Use your senses fully. Be where you are. Look around. Just look, don't interpret. See the lights, shapes, colours, textures. Be aware of the silent presence of each thing. Be aware of the space that allows everything to be. Listen to the sounds; don't judge them. Listen to the silence underneath the sounds. Touch something - anything - and feel and acknowledge its Being. Observe the rhythm of your breathing; feel the air flowing in and out, feel the life energy inside your body. Allow everything to be, within and without. Allow the "isness" of all things. Move deeply into the Now.
You are leaving behind the deadening world of mental abstraction of time. You are getting out of the insane mind that is draining you of life energy, just as it is slowly poisoning and destroying the Earth. You are awakening out of the dream of time into the Present.
[Pause and meditate]
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Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
[b]All Problems Are Illusions Of The Mind
It feels as if a heavy burden has been lifted. A sense of lightness. I feel clear... but my problems are still there waiting for me, aren't they? They haven't been solved. Am I not just temporarily evading them?
If you found yourself in paradise, it wouldn't be long before your mind would say "yes, but...."
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's about realizing that there are no problems. Only situations - to be dealt with now, or to be left alone and accepted as part of the "isness" of the present moment until they change or can be dealt with. Problems are mind-made and need time to survive. They cannot survive in the actuality of the Now.
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.
[Pause and meditate]
I am not getting any answer because it is impossible to have a problem when your attention is fully in the Now. A situation that needs to be either dealt with or accepted - yes. Why make it into a problem? Why make anything into a problem? Isn't lifechallenging enough as it is? What do you need problems for? The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts. This is normal, and it is insane. "Problem" means that you are dwelling on a situation mentally without there being a true intention or possibility of taking action now and that you are unconsciously making it part of your sense of self. You become so overwhelmed by your life situation that you lose your sense of life, of Being. Or you are carrying in your mind the insane burden of a hundred things that you will or may have to do in the future instead of focusing your attention on the one thing that you can do now.
When you create a problem, you create pain. All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems. Although it is a simple choice, it is also very radical. You won' t make that choice unless you are truly fed up with suffering, unless you have truly had enough. And you won't be able to go through with it unless you access the power of the Now. If you create no more pain for yourself, then you create no more pain for others. You also no longer contaminate the beautiful Earth, your inner space, and the collective human psyche with the negativity of problem-making.
[Pause and meditate]
If you have ever been in a life-or-death emergency situation, you will know that it wasn't a problem. The mind didn't have time to fool around and make it into a problem. In a true emergency, the mind stops; you become totally present in the Now, and something infinitely more powerful takes over. This is why there are many reports of ordinary people suddenly becoming capable of incredibly courageous deeds. In any emergency, either you survive or you don't. Either way, it is not a problem.
Some people get angry when they hear me say that problems are illusions. I am threatening to take away their sense of who they are. They have invested much time in a false sense of self. For many years, they have unconsciously defined their whole identity in terms of' their problems or their suffering. Who would they be without it?
A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivated by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.
Should a situation arise that you need to deal with now, your action will be clear and incisive if it arises out of present-moment awareness. It is also more likely to be effective. It will not be a reaction coming from the past conditioning of your mind but an intuitive response to the situation. In other instances, when the time-bound mind would have reacted, you will find it more effective to do nothing - just stay centered in the Now.
A Quantum Leap In The Evolution Of Consciousness
I have had glimpses of this state of freedom from mind and time that you describe, but past and future are so overwhelmingly strong that I cannot keep them out for long.
The time-bound mode of consciousness is deeply embedded in the human psyche. But what we are doing here is part of a profound transformation that is taking place in the collective consciousness of the planet and beyond: the awakening of consciousness from the dream of matter, form, and separation. The ending of time. We are breaking mind patterns that have dominated human life for eons. Mind pat-terns that have created unimaginable suffering on a vast scale. I am not using the word evil. It is more helpful to call it unconsciousness or insanity.
This breaking-up of the old mode of consciousness or rather unconsciousness: is it something we have to do or will it happen anyway? I mean, is this change inevitable?
That's a question of perspective. The doing and the happening is in fact a single process; because you are one with the totality of consciousness, you cannot separate the two. But there is no absolute guarantee that humans will make it. The process isn't inevitable or automatic. Your cooperation is an essential part of it. However you look at it, it is a quantum leap in the evolution of consciousness, as well as our only chance of survival as a race.[/b] -
Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
[b]The Joy Of Being
To alert you that you have allowed yourself to be taken over by psychological time, you can use a simple criterion. Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease, and lightness in what I am doing? If there isn't, then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.
If there is no joy, ease, or lightness in what you are doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how. "How" is always more important than "what." See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it. Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents. This implies that you also completely accept what is, because you cannot give your full attention to something and at the same time resist it.
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out of present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.
[Pause and meditate]
So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action - just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. This is a powerful spiritual practice. In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the oldest and most beautiful spiritual teachings in existence, non-attachment to the fruit of your action is called Karma Yoga. It is described as the path of "consecrated action."
When the compulsive striving away from the Now ceases, the joy of Being flows into everything you do. The moment your attention turns to the Now, you feel a presence, a stillness, a peace. You no longer depend on the future for fulfillment and satisfaction - you don't look to it for salvation. Therefore, you are not attached to the results. Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being. You have found the life underneath your life situation.
In the absence of psychological time, your sense of self is derived from Being, not from your personal past. Therefore, the psychological need to become anything other than who you are already is no longer there. In the world, on the level of your life situation, you may indeed become wealthy, knowledgeable, successful, free of this or that, but in the deeper dimension of Being you are complete and whole now.
In that state of wholeness, would we still be able or willing to pursue external goals?
Of course, but you will not have illusory expectations that anything or anybody in the future will save you or make you happy. As far as your life situation is concerned, there may be things to be attained or acquired. That's the world of form, of gain and loss. Yet on a deeper level you are already complete, and when you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do. Being free of psychological time, you no longer pursue your goals with grim determination, driven by fear, anger, discontent, or the need to become someone. Nor will you remain inactive through fear of failure, which to the egois loss of self. When your deeper sense of self is derived from Being, when you are free of "becoming" as a psychological need, neither your happiness nor your sense of self depends on the outcome, and so there is freedom from fear. You don't seek permanency where it cannot be found: in the world of form, of gain and loss, birth and death. You don't demand that situations, conditions, places, or people should make you happy, and then suffer when they don't live up to your expectations.
Everything is honored, but nothing matters. Forms are born and die, yet you are aware of the eternal underneath the forms. You know that "nothing real can be threatened."
When this is your state of Being, how can you not succeed? You have succeeded already.[/b] -
A little about Eckhart Tolle, the author of The Power of Now:
Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
This book is very popular and you can find it in almost all major bookstores in Singapore.. if u find it grab a copy..
I have already personally sent many people emails to get this...
Introduction of the Book:
[b]The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
I have little use for the past and rarely think about it; however, I would briefly like to tell you how I came to be a spiritual teacher and how ‘The Power of Now’ came into existence.
Until my thirtieth year, I lived in a state of almost continuous anxiety interspersed with periods of suicidal depression. It feels now as if I am talking about some past lifetime or somebody else's life.
Awakening
One night not long after my twenty-ninth birthday, I woke up in the early hours with a feeling of absolute dread. I had woken up with such a feeling many times before, but this time it was more intense than it had ever been. The silence of the night, the vague outlines of the furniture in the dark room, the distant noise of a passing train – everything felt so alien, so hostile, and so utterly meaningless that it created in me a deep loathing of the world. The most loathsome thing of all, however, was my own existence. What was the point in continuing to live with this burden of misery? Why carry on with this continuous struggle? I could feel that a deep longing for annihilation, for nonexistence, was now becoming much stronger than the instinctive desire to continue to live.
‘I cannot live with myself any longer.’ This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was.. ‘Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’ that ‘I’ cannot live with.’ ‘Maybe,’ I thought, ‘only one of them is real.’
I was so stunned by this strange realization that my mind stopped. I was fully conscious, but there were no more thoughts. Then I felt drawn into what seemed like a vortex of energy. It was a slow movement at first and then accelerated. I was gripped by an intense fear, and my body started to shake. I heard the words ‘resist nothing,’ as if spoken inside my chest. I could feel myself being sucked into a void. It felt as if the void was inside myself rather than outside. Suddenly, there was no more fear, and I let myself fall into that void. I have no recollection of what happened after that.
I was awakened by the chirping of a bird outside the window. I had never heard such a sound before. My eyes were still closed, and I saw the image of a precious diamond. Yes, if a diamond could make a sound, this is what it would be like. I opened my eyes. The first light of dawn was filtering through the curtains. Without any thought, I felt, I knew, that there is infinitely more to light than we realize. That soft luminosity filtering through the curtains was love itself. Tears came into my eyes. I got up and walked around the room. I recognized the room, and yet I knew that I had never truly seen it before. Everything was fresh and pristine, as if it had just come into existence. I picked up things, a pencil, an empty bottle, marvelling at the beauty and aliveness of it all. That day I walked around the city in utter amazement at the miracle of life on earth, as if I had just been born into this world.
Bliss
For the next five months, I lived in a state of uninterrupted deep peace and bliss. After that, it diminished somewhat in intensity, or perhaps it just seemed to because it became my natural state. I could still function in the world, although I realized that nothing I ever did could possibly add anything to what I already had.
Understanding
I knew, of course, that something profoundly significant had happened to me, but I didn't understand it at all. It wasn't until several years later, after I had read spiritual texts and spent time with spiritual teachers, that I realized that what everybody was looking for had already happened to me. I understood that the intense pressure of suffering that night must have forced my consciousness to withdraw from its identification with the unhappy and deeply fearful self, which is ultimately a fiction of the mind. This withdrawal must have been so complete that this false, suffering self immediately collapsed, just as if a plug had been pulled out of an inflatable toy. What was left then was my true nature as the ever-present I am: consciousness in its pure state prior to identification with form. Later I also learned to go into that inner timeless and deathless realm that I had originally perceived as a void and remain fully conscious. I dwelt in states of such indescribable bliss and sacredness that even the original experience I just described pales in comparison. A time came when, for a while, I was left with nothing on the physical plane. I had no relationships, no job, no home, no socially defined identity. I spent almost two years sitting on park benches in a state of the most intense joy.
But even the most beautiful experiences come and go. More fundamental, perhaps, than any experience is the undercurrent of peace that has never left me since then. Sometimes it is very strong, almost palpable, and others can feel it too. At other times, it is somewhere in the background, like a distant melody.
Sharing
Later, people would occasionally come up to me and say: ‘I want what you have. Can you give it to me, or show me how to get it?’ And I would say: ‘You have it already. You just can’t feel it because your mind is making too much noise.’ That answer later grew into my book, ‘The Power of Now’.
From The Power of Now, copyright 1999 by Eckhart Tolle, published in the UK in 2001 by Hodder and Stoughton.
Photographs © Cygnus Books 21-Feb-2001[/b] -
More information about the book which I found to be inspiring and transformative:
http://www.eckharttolle.com/home.php?section=about&show=ABOUT%20-%20Power%20of%20now
The Power of Now
The Power of Now has been widely recognized as one of the most influential spiritual books of our time. A #1 New York Times bestseller, it has been translated into over 30 languages. The book has helped countless people around the globe awaken to the spiritual dimension in their lives, find inner peace, increased joy and more harmonious relationships
To make the journey into The Power of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. From the beginning of the first chapter we move rapidly into a significantly higher altitude where one breathes a lighter air, the air of the spiritual. Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle offers simple language and a question and answer format to guide us. The words themselves are the signposts.
For many of us there are new discoveries to be made along the way: we are not our mind; we can find our way out of psychological pain; authentic human power is found by surrendering to the Now. We also find out that the body is actually one of the keys to entry into a state of inner peace, as are the silence and space all around us. Indeed, access is everywhere available. These access points, or portals, can all be used to bring us into the Now, the present moment, where problems do not exist. It is here we find our joy and are able to embrace our true selves. It is here we discover that we are already complete and perfect.
Many of us will find that our biggest obstacle to this realization is our relationships, especially our intimate relationships. But again, we are in new territory and all is not what it had seemed before. We come to see that our relationships are yet another doorway into spiritual enlightenment if we use them wisely, meaning if we use them to become more conscious and therefore more loving human beings. The result? Real communion between self and others.
If we are able to be fully present and take each step in the Now; if we are able to feel the reality of such things as the inner-body, surrender, forgiveness, and the Unmanifested, we will be opening ourselves to the transforming experience of The Power of Now.
A New Earth - Awakening to your lifeÂ’s purpose
Building on the astonishing success of The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle presents readers with an honest look at the current state of humanity: He implores us to see and accept that this state, which is based on an erroneous identification with the egoic mind, is one of dangerous insanity.
Tolle tells us there is good news, however. There is an alternative to this potentially dire situation. Humanity now, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one.
In illuminating the nature of this shift in consciousness, Tolle describes in detail how our current ego-based state of consciousness operates. Then gently, and in very practical terms, he leads us into this new consciousness. We will come to experience who we truly are—which is something infinitely greater than anything we currently think we are—and learn to live and breathe freely.
“The One Thing” by Eckhart Tolle
In the Gospel story of Mary and Martha, Jesus says to Martha, “You are anxious and troubled about many things, but only one thing is needful.” (Luke 10:41)
As I was writing A New Earth, people would sometimes ask me, “What is the new book about?” And invariably, my answer would be, “I only ever write or speak about one thing.”
What is that one thing?
Spiritual awakening.
Can a person be awakened spiritually by a book?
Yes, if three conditions are met:
Firstly, there must be a readiness on the part of the reader, an openness, a receptivity to spiritual truth, which is to say, a readiness to awaken. For the first time in history of humanity, large numbers of people have reached that point of readiness, which explains why millions have responded so deeply to The Power of Now.
Secondly, the text must have transformative power. This means the words must have come out of the awakened consciousness rather than the accumulated knowledge of a personÂ’s mind. Only then will a text be charged with that power, a power that goes far beyond the informational value of the words. That is why such a book can be read again and again and lose none of its aliveness.
Thirdly, the terminology used needs to be as neutral as possible so that it transcends the confines of any one culture, religion, or spiritual tradition. Only then will it be accessible to a broad range of readers world-wide, regardless of cultural background.
All these conditions were met in The Power of Now, which is why the book has had such an impact on the collective consciousness.
Why write another book?
Since the publication of The Power of Now, I have given hundreds of talks and teaching sessions all over the world, and in the course of those seven years, the teaching evolved. While the essence remained the same (The Truth is timeless.), new perspectives arose, new signposts, alternative approaches to the Truth, as well as an added sense of urgency. A New Earth reflects this evolution and this urgency.
If The Power of Now worked for you and changed your life – as it did for countless people all over the world – there is no need for you to read A New Earth (although you may enjoy reading it and may find some of it helpful in recognizing the ego and thus sustaining the state of Presence).
My feeling is that A New Earth will make the teaching (the one thing) accessible to an even wider audience, including people who perhaps would not have dreamt of reading a “spiritual” book but have within them a hitherto unrecognized longing for spiritual awakening.
A New Earth will also be extremely helpful for those who read The Power of Now, found it interesting, but somehow missed the essence of it. It presents them with new perspectives on the same truth, new signposts, pointers towards Presence. Different pointers work for different people.
Millions are now ready to awaken because spiritual awakening is not an option anymore, but a necessity if humanity and the planet are to survive. Everything is speeding up – the madness, the collective egoic dysfunction, as well as the arising of the new consciousness, the awakening.
We are running out of time. From the perspective of the ego, thatÂ’s bad news and will give rise to fear. From a higher perspective, the running out of time is exactly what is needed for the new consciousness to come into this world. -
hey!Originally posted by ChenW33:Im feeling depressed, suffering alot now, always despised by people around me and can't get out of my insomnia. I hate my life, seems like i have to face such disdain from people my whole life everywhere. The feeling is bad, there's always something there preventing me from succeeding or even having the ability to work hard.
My peers dun understand my problems and they keep on thinking im purposely not performing, its always like this hard to continue
u just got to cheer up.
well,u dun haf to care about ppl who despise you.
just be yourself.
u dun haf to let hw ppl think of you affect you yeah?
its not worth somehw.
well,life can be pretty amazing. it all depends on hw u look upon to life.
rmb,we only live life once.
we dun live forever.
u got to treasure whatever u have right nw yeah?
u can always find ur parents to talk about ur problems.
or councillors to talk about it.
there are sure ways for u to talk it through.
all the best to you.
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Merry Meet Ah Boy,
Its seems you been promoting & hard-selling Eckhart Tolle alot. What is before his works? "Celestine Prophecy" is a good informative read too.
Blessed Be,
Oceanos -
Originally posted by OCEANOS:
Oh haha... i dont read many books, so i cannot give any other recommendations. But I bought The Power of Now bcos its recommended by a friend and its v popular. I find that The Power of Now is simple yet inspiring, transformative.
[b]Merry Meet Ah Boy,
Its seems you been promoting & hard-selling Eckhart Tolle alot. What is before his works? "Celestine Prophecy" is a good informative read too.
Blessed Be,
Oceanos[/b]
What is before his works? what do you mean? -
Merry Meet To Chen W33 & All,
It's not mere chance that we gravitate toward those who become our friends. Nor is it only happenstance that we are piqued by others. We are, in fact, on a journey and have much to learn. From our friends and even more so from those not so friendly, we are destined to learn what our souls yearn for. The journey is the process of enlightenment for which we all have gathered. From one another we are receiving that which we're ready to learn. All of us students. Each of us a teacher.
How comforting to know that the pain of a particular experience, or the confusion over a set of circumstances, will become understandable with the passage of time. All experience plays its part. All of our acquaintances share destinies overlapping our own. There is security in knowing that our journeys are necessary and right for us.
I'll not discount the value of any person or any experience that circumstances offer today. Perhaps we have picked each other from the crowd as fellow travelers, for neither of us is to the other's personality the end-all and the be-all.
No worries, no one is literally alone, i am sure someone out there do care & understand you just you got to give others a chance before that can happen. Cheer up, chin up too...
Blessed Be,
Oceanos -
Merry Meet Ah Boy,Originally posted by An Eternal Now:Oh haha... i dont read many books, so i cannot give any other recommendations. But I bought The Power of Now bcos its recommended by a friend and its v popular. I find that The Power of Now is simple yet inspiring, transformative.
What is before his works? what do you mean?
"Celestine Prophecy" is very popular previously. One of the earlier works by James Redfield is also a very good read way before Eckhart Tolle's works. Other books by James Redfield like The Tenth Insight : Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy), The Celestine Vision : Living the New Spiritual Awareness & many more are good too.
Blessed Be,
Oceanos -
Originally posted by OCEANOS:
Oh I see.. thanks for sharing, Oceanos
[b]Merry Meet Ah Boy,
"Celestine Prophecy" is very popular previously. One of the earlier works by James Redfield is also a very good read way before Eckhart Tolle's works. Other books by James Redfield like The Tenth Insight : Holding the Vision (Celestine Prophecy), The Celestine Vision : Living the New Spiritual Awareness & many more are good too.
Blessed Be,
Oceanos[/b]
But hmm.. as for Eckhart Tolle, I think the things he write may be a little different from those books you recommend. -
Merry Meet Ah Boy,Originally posted by An Eternal Now:Oh I see.. thanks for sharing, Oceanos
Welcome... Hahaha Hows everything with you?
Blessed Be,
Oceanos -
Originally posted by OCEANOS:
Oh im fine
[b]Merry Meet Ah Boy,
Welcome... Hahaha Hows everything with you?
Blessed Be,
Oceanos[/b] u leh?
A little busy with work right now.. -
MmMM u need help from a counseller ... talk it out with friend helps.Originally posted by ChenW33:Im feeling depressed, suffering alot now, always despised by people around me and can't get out of my insomnia. I hate my life, seems like i have to face such disdain from people my whole life everywhere. The feeling is bad, there's always something there preventing me from succeeding or even having the ability to work hard.
My peers dun understand my problems and they keep on thinking im purposely not performing, its always like this hard to continue
Don't be too hard on yourself. Do your best and has no Regret.
Even if cannot suceed, why be unhappy?
u want to succeed to be happy ?
You can be happy with or without success. -
I noticed even when you meditate... you seem to be unable to focus. You seem to be quite restless. Guess there is too much in your mind.. and especially if there is so much going on in your mind throughout your life, if you can practise as what 'The Power of Now' taught, I believe it will be of a great help. It will gradually change your living.Originally posted by ChenW33:Im feeling depressed, suffering alot now, always despised by people around me and can't get out of my insomnia. I hate my life, seems like i have to face such disdain from people my whole life everywhere. The feeling is bad, there's always something there preventing me from succeeding or even having the ability to work hard.
My peers dun understand my problems and they keep on thinking im purposely not performing, its always like this hard to continue
Another thing... do pick up the habit of chanting.. -
Anyway perhaps you can share with us or me in MSN a little more about ur probs..Originally posted by ChenW33:Im feeling depressed, suffering alot now, always despised by people around me and can't get out of my insomnia. I hate my life, seems like i have to face such disdain from people my whole life everywhere. The feeling is bad, there's always something there preventing me from succeeding or even having the ability to work hard.
My peers dun understand my problems and they keep on thinking im purposely not performing, its always like this hard to continue -
Seems like there's so much you're struggling against, and that is kind of tiring you out. I believe what you expressed here is only a small part of what you're going through. It's not easy for anybody to have to deal with own problems, yet still needing to live up to other people's expectations, and I suppose it would help if people around us were a bit more understanding.Originally posted by ChenW33:Im feeling depressed, suffering alot now, always despised by people around me and can't get out of my insomnia. I hate my life, seems like i have to face such disdain from people my whole life everywhere. The feeling is bad, there's always something there preventing me from succeeding or even having the ability to work hard.
My peers dun understand my problems and they keep on thinking im purposely not performing, its always like this hard to continue
Even for you to be posting this in the forum, sharing about your stress and difficulty, takes quite a lot of courage, that's quite a big step!
At this point there's nothing much I can do for you, but I will keep you in my prayers. Stay strong, and just as how you took the risk to post in this forum, do be courageous and seek professional support. Stay strong. All the best. -
I just like to add that your being depressed might also be caused by physical malady. In addition to the suggestions made above, I would also advise you to seek medical help.Originally posted by ChenW33:Im feeling depressed, suffering alot now, always despised by people around me and can't get out of my insomnia. I hate my life, seems like i have to face such disdain from people my whole life everywhere. The feeling is bad, there's always something there preventing me from succeeding or even having the ability to work hard.
My peers dun understand my problems and they keep on thinking im purposely not performing, its always like this hard to continue
May you be free of this depression! -
ok.. thx alot all