Chapter 10 of Eckart Tolle's "A New Earth" talks about manifestation.
In his webinar with Oprah, he had this to say about manifesting. I am copying-pasting from pg. 22-26 of the webinar transcript:
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KIPPY: ...My question is, is how can we have goals or visions if we are to always remain in the present? ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): ...When you are in touch with your own power... [you do not] ... say, "I would like to achieve this or that at some future point, I need that, I want that to complete myself." You're reaching out toward that goal; you're losing yourself; you're not present.
...I give an example now in The Power of Now, before I ever wrote the book, I had this vision of that that book was already on some level already there, had already been written. And so I felt all I'm doing is I'm externalizing what's already there. I had this strong inner feeling that the book already exists inside me. I saw it as a reality already. I didn't try to achieve writing a book. The book was already there, and all then I had to do was be open to this energy movement coming from within, to manifest what was already there on a deeper level.
And that's why Jesus said whenever you asked for anything, "Believe that you already have received it, and it will be yours."
So if you believe that you already have received it, it means it must already be a reality inside yourself. So you're not coming from lack or scarcity or neediness because then ... there's no power behind your vision or your goal. You're already coming from fullness. So the goal is already a reality inside. You already feel as if you had it. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right. ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): It's already a reality and what you feel ... is the fullness that is already there in the present moment. And then you don't lose yourself, then you are fully there as you begin to respond to this inner impulse. You manifest it in your life in the present moment.
So it's not a future thing really. A powerful goal ... you're not visualizing in order to achieve something in the future, you're visualizing in order to bring something out that's already inside you. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Wow. That's powerful, but I can understand why a lot of people would be confused by it because then how do you ever achieve anything in the future? Isn't that what you're saying too, Kippy? KIPPY: Right. Right. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): How do you ever achieve anything in the future? Say, I want to be an actress. A lot of people ... have day jobs, but what they really want—I want to be an actress. That's a future goal, I want to be an actor or actress, or I want to get a job working for, you know, a major corporation. ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): ... How can you not hold that as a vision for yourself? ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): ...The power that is there inside you that will manifest externally in time and in the future is already there. Get in touch with the power.
What would it feel like if you were an actress already successful? What does that feel like inside you? And where does the power come from with which you can make a difference in people's lives when you are doing something like that? Where does the power reside? OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yeah, because you say, instead of saying "I want to be a great actress" is "How do I use this talent to manifest in such a way that causes people to feel a certain way?" ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): So it's already a reality inside you, and then you can take steps toward implementing that. But it comes from fullness rather than neediness. The mistake is not finding the place of power that is in the present moment, and believing that something else that is not in the present moment is going to bring you to the place of power.
OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Okay. ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): It won't. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Okay. I just got it, Kippy. I just got it.
...What he's saying is, is that whatever goal that you have or vision that you have must come from the place of being or consciousness ... If it comes from being or consciousness, then it comes through you, out into the world instead of you reaching out into the world saying, "This is what I want for myself."
And so all things—and I can use the example of myself. I have always wanted to do exactly what I'm doing here with all of you tonight. I've always felt that deep inside me this is what I was meant to do. I was meant to be a teacher, I was meant to use television as a platform for helping people to better know themselves.
...Knowing that, knowing that deep inside myself, is what has helped bring this into fruition this way, instead of saying, you know, "One day I want to have a webcast and have a million people on the webcast."
ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): You see what I'm saying? KIPPY: I do, yes. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): That it comes from the inner part of you. There's a feeling that comes from the consciousness part of yourself, the being of yourself that says, "This is what I now need to do." (to Eckhart) And that's why you were saying it doesn't matter what you do. ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): No. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): It's how you do what you do. And it doesn't matter what you do, everything that you do has to be fueled by consciousness or the spirit of God ... otherwise, it has no real meaning in your life. ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. And the place of power is in the present moment. That's a vital thing is you can only touch that power in the present moment. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): And so you said last week it's about this step, the step today that it takes to get to the next step, then the next step, and the next step, and the next step. ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): You don't get there by thinking, let me, you know. ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): No. And even if you're doing something at the moment that life has given you that doesn't seem to be part of your vision.
...Let's say you're working in a restaurant but your vision is being a great artist ... You still need to honor whatever it is that you're doing at this moment fully and completely. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Right. ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Because it may, some way it may arise out of that. That may also be part of it. OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): That's right. Because every step leads you to the direction. It's the means and not the end that counts. ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH: AWAKENING TO YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE): Yes, excellent.  |