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October 2008 Featured Article


Enjoy the journey. There is beauty and wonder in each eternal moment, here and now.

Your life's journey has an outer purpose and an inner purpose. The outer purpose is to arrive at your goal or destination, to accomplish what you set out to do, to achieve this or that, which, of course, implies future. But if your destination, or the steps you are going to take in the future, take up so much of your attention that they become more important to you than the step you are taking now, then you completely miss the journey's inner purpose, which has nothing to do with where you are going or what you are doing, but everything with how. It has nothing to do with future but everything to do with the quality of your consciousness at this moment. The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of timeless Now. Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now. As you become more deeply aware of this one step, you realize that it already contains within itself all the other steps as well as the destination. This one step then becomes transformed into an expression of perfection, an act of great beauty and quality. It will have taken you into Being, and the light of Being will shine through it. This is both the purpose and the fulfillment of your inner journey, the journey into yourself.

Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now, p73, The New World Library, Copyright 1999







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October 2008 Statement of the Month


You will become as great

as your dominant aspiration.

If you cherish a vision,

the tool of thought,

and shaping what we will,

bring forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills.

We think a lofty ideal in your heart,

you will realize it.

-James Allen, As You Think