Awakening

I am struggling... a bit...getting through the book club selection. Part of it is that I am only reading while I walk on the treadmill. that is 30 minutes a day every otherday with one extra each week. Not that you really needed to know that. So admittedly I am only on page 78 or something like that.

I agree with most of what Tolle has to say. I am most intrigued by the ego stuff in regards to complaints and grievances and the need to feed the ego by complaint. Its true, at least of me, more often that I care to admit.

At work certainly, I can site 100 such episodes in the last week alone... now I am wanting to fast forward through it .... the book that is, and find out if he offers some skills to change that. I get that recognizing the flaw in oneself is 2/3 of the battle....but what I need is help with the last third. How not to criticise.... isn't some criticism just education. That is if it framed properly. If I am right, because I have knowledge, that doesn't make you wrong, just ignorant....and being ignorant is way different than being wrong.

The ego at work in myself and in others.... that is the conflict I feel most often. How do you repair that.... or overcome it....

I hope Tolle can answer some of those questions.

ps I refuse to go to the websites dedicated to discussing the book, I do not seek insight from someone who has already read the final words, I am just asking myself these questions...