December 22, 2006

• Alienation

   

  I can resonate with the words below from Tolle:

   

  People are trapped in their egoic stage.  They are alienated from themselves as well as others around them.  When you look at them you see the tension in their face, the furrow brow and the absence of staring expression in their eyes.  Most of their attention is absorbed by thinking.  And so they don’t really see you, and they are not really listening to you.  They are not presence in any situation.  Their attentions are either on the past or the future, which exist in the mind of course as thought forms.  All they relate to you is some kind of role they play and so they are not themselves.  Most people are alienated from who they are.  And some are alienated to such degree that the way they behave and interact is recognized as phony by almost everyone, except those who are equally phony, equally alienated from who they are.  Alienation means you don’t feel at ease in any situations, any place, or with any person, not even with yourself.  You’re always trying to get ‘home’, but never feel at ‘home.’

   

  Do you believe that alienation is the universal dilemma of the human existence? 

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