Daily Spiritual Insight from Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Speaks

One of the changes consciousness triggers in our life is that it frees us from dogma.

The more our awareness increases, the less do we have a need to cling to beliefs and doctrines.

Truth isn’t enshrined in dogma. Truth is more a matter of our experience of life than it is a set of beliefs. It’s about a life that’s authentic rather than holding onto a set of mental positions.

Why, from continent to continent, do literally billions see spirituality in terms of a “discipline”?

Why is spirituality associated with strictness?

Why is it portrayed as hard work, difficult, a struggle?

Why do vast numbers all across the planet see spirituality as something restrictive of an unbridled joie de vivre?

A line from a movie: “They are strictly chapel, dull people, won’t even allow strong tea in the house.”

What Eckhart Tolle calls the pain-body whispers to us just when we have the potential of enjoying ourselves, "Be unhappy!"

How often we follow it's advice.

In each moment there is a choice.

We can allow the misery of the pain-body to overwhelm us, telling ourselves all kinds of negative things about ourselves or our life.

Or we can choose to recognize the pain-body for what it is: not who we truly are at all, but something we picked up from family and society as we were growing up.

One of the most controversial and active discussions among serious people today involves trying to identify the differences between Religion and Spirituality.  In the 10-week webinar series on the study of the book A New Earth co-hosted by