{"id":235,"date":"2008-05-15T08:01:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T13:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=235"},"modified":"2008-05-15T08:01:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T13:01:04","slug":"living-on-the-new-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/15\/living-on-the-new-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Living on the New Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought the audio version of Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth<\/em><\/a> <\/em>some time ago but only listened to it over the past few days when I drove to Pennsylvania for a long weekend.\u00a0 It was just what I needed to hear!\u00a0 Tolle even suggests that that is the case: you read the book when you are ready for it.\u00a0 And Tolle narrated the audio version so as I navigated the car through the horrible traffic around DC, I felt like I was in a one-on-one seminar with him, listening closely, occasionally rewinding, trying to be intensely present to what he was saying.<\/p>\n

I have had the glimmers that Tolle talks about.\u00a0 For instance, I find myself hurrying to finish folding the laundry and I think, “Why am I hurrying?” I slow down and just try to be there as I fold the laundry.\u00a0 Or, I find myself annoyed over some silly thing with my husband and I find this voice saying, “Why are you annoyed?”\u00a0 I have a wonderful husband who seems to already understand the notion of just being present in all you do.\u00a0 He works hard to grow our food and create a peaceful life for us.\u00a0 These glimmers, I realize, are the moments when I was most conscious.<\/p>\n

My main issue in terms of the ego is worry: Am I working hard enough so I will be successful?\u00a0 What will I do for money now that the grant is over? What SHOULD I be doing right now?\u00a0 And, as part of that glimmer, I’ve found that if I just stop worrying and do, I get a lot done.<\/p>\n

Right now, I am experiencing an odd sort of stress.\u00a0 After many years of working very hard with very little free time, I have lots of free time.\u00a0 Sure, I have a to do list but nothing that must be accomplished even in the next two weeks.\u00a0 So, I am struggling inside with this.\u00a0 It’s Thursday and my next job is to scrub my kitchen floor.\u00a0 But other people are at work, earning paychecks.\u00a0 Well, I did that for a long time and right now, I’m not doing that.\u00a0 So, that means that if I look at my schedule and upcoming events and I have time and enthusiasm for scrubbing the kitchen floor, I should do it.\u00a0 I don’t dwell on the past as much as I worry about the future, but for today, I am just going to try to be present in my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bought the audio version of Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth some time ago but only listened to it over the past few days when I drove to Pennsylvania for a long weekend.\u00a0 It was just what I needed to hear!\u00a0 Tolle even suggests that that is the case: you \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[26,27,157],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-3N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}