There’s a book written by Byron Katie, A THOUSAND NAMES FOR JOY. The book is easy to read. It reminds me somewhat of Eckhart Tolle’s book, THE POWER OF NOW, in that both books stress that pain and suffering are caused by our thoughts. Sometimes you just have to spend time with books that don’t assault the senses, and are a pleasure to read.
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I experienced a flash after reading a passage from A THOUSAND NAMES FOR JOY. It was this: all books, newspapers, magazines, televisions, radios, computers, and telephones-even paper, pencils, pens-were wiped away, as in, gone, (for an unspecified period of time). Now it’s up to us human beings to come to a greater understanding about Life.
Yes, all these things are gone and are replaced with a gift of time-time to understand Life within and without. And something becomes available to us. Us! Yes, we become authentically available to ourselves and then to others. In this flash of mine, we’re able to tap into parts of ourselves we never knew existed because we previously depended too much on information coming at us full speed 24/7.
And the information age returned, but not in the same way ever again because people discovered incredible things about themselves, and they began living their own authentic way instead of ways dictated by others.
Well, perhaps in lieu of the disappearance of the information age, some of us can strap on a backpack, find a feel-good place in the world, and for an unspecified period of time, begin to uncover parts of ourselves waiting and wanting to be revealed. If not that, than we can find a place within ourselves.
Imagine what could happen, what would happen.