Trying something new

I learned an interesting lesson yesterday. I was watching a dialogue on Youtube between Oprah Winfrey and Eckart Tolle, and Eckart was talking about his experience with writing his first book, The Power of Now. He described how one day he was going about his business and all of a sudden he got this sense of something needing to arise out of Oneness, or as he calls it Consciousness. (I like that term.) He could not put his finger on it but he felt like something had to be born. As he sorted it out and wound up moving to the west coast of Canada and the US, he started to write the book.

The point here is that he didn't write the book. The book wrote him.

When he was in the process of writing, as time went on, he sometimes did not feel much like putting anything down. However, each day he cleared some time and space for the writing, whether he wrote or not. He said he respected the space for it to do what it needed. (I'm paraphrasing and taking liberties here.)

Interestingly, I felt similarly when deciding to start this blog. One day I got this huge feeling of things within me starting to bubble up to the surface, and I got this huge push to start bloggin' what I new about this stuff. So I started.

On some posts, however, I am writing about what *I* want to write, and I have figured out that this is probably not as useful as letting Consciousness write what it wants. So here I am. Before I started writing this today, I sat quiety at the same time I usually post here, and I asked Consciousness, "What do I write?"

The answer is this post, but also this video. Watch the whole series if you like: