#a new earth

[symphonyoflovenet]

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

[dasenergi]

When you drop all of the masks we wear, all of the labels that we (or others) have applied to ourselves. When all ego fades away. When we are freed from form. When spirit is released from matter. Who are we?

"When you yield internally, when you surrender, a new dimension of consciousness opens up."

"You realize your essential identity as formless, as an all-pervasive presence of being, prior to all forms and all identifications."

"You realize your true identity as consciousness itself."

"You rest in the peace and inner stillness that come with surrender. You rest in God."

"In alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence." (Coincidences happens.)

—Eckhart Tolle

[jus-morbo]

David LaChapelle - Sister Moon, 2019 from

A New Heaven, A New Earth series

[rini-descartes]

"What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself."

— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

[nomoremaybe]

Matthew’s Messages

November 1, 2024

Ending of light vs. dark battle on Earth; volunteers’ part; effects of fear; light forces; “lost” memory; special treatment for some souls, healing, karma

With loving greetings from all souls at this station, this is Matthew. Creator Source, Supreme Being of the cosmos, endowed all souls with the free will gift of using Its love-light energy to co-create whatever they could imagine.

The Supreme Being of this universe, called God or other names in reverence, used that gift in His domain to manifest joyous, healthy, prosperous, spiritually and consciously enlightened souls with remarkable innate powers.

Some strong souls used their free will to put into dormancy 10 of weaker souls’ 12 DNA strands and confined those benumbed souls in a matrix that excluded all the marvelous qualities and abilities God had bestowed upon them. Thus began the universal battle between the light forces and the dark forces and it has been raging ever since.

Let us liken that matrix to tightly-wound balls of yarn in Earth’s energy field of potential, which reflects activity on the planet. Down through the ages those balls stayed rigidly in place as activity in the field showed how one civilization after another was dominated by a succession of powerful, greedy, ruthless individuals.

About 90 years ago an influx of light loosened the balls and they started unraveling. They continued unraveling throughout the decades that followed and today the matrix is but countless threads flailing chaotically. That analogy, however paltry, represents the ending of the universal battle on Earth.

The dark forces fight with divisiveness, deception, corruption and fear. The light forces use only the power of love, and in the continuum, they already have won the battle. The souls you have helped awaken now know this, and it will well serve them and you when truths start tumbling out. We don’t know exactly when that will be or the order in which truths will come forth, but it is realistic to anticipate that before long you will be amidst a virtual cauldron of emotional disturbance—the most dynamic stage of your Earth journey is nigh.

Continued: https://www.matthewbooks.com/november-1-2024/

[rains-of-words]

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose

[newpathpride]

“What is commonly called “falling in love” is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.”

- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

Very interesting perspective on what we think of as traditional romantic love and weirdly aro affirming… or is that just me? The “wanting” and “needing” are why romance in its traditional form felt unnatural and suffocating. Anyone else?

[milesbutterball]

[d-i-x-i-t]

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth)

[seccendedos]

"When instead of reacting against a situation, you merge with it, the solution arises out o the situation itself."

[karlrincon]

Happy New Year 2024 from Korea.

Year of the 🐲🐉!

[symphonyoflovenet]

Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

[pinkgelpen444]

[theupfish]

The ozone layer is not only healing, but will likely be back to its 1980-state within a Millennial's lifetime

[reasonsforhope]

No paywall version here.

"Two and a half years ago, when I was asked to help write the most authoritative report on climate change in the United States, I hesitated...

In the end, I said yes, but reluctantly. Frankly, I was sick of admonishing people about how bad things could get. Scientists have raised the alarm over and over again, and still the temperature rises. Extreme events like heat waves, floods and droughts are becoming more severe and frequent, exactly as we predicted they would. We were proved right. It didn’t seem to matter.

Our report, which was released on Tuesday, contains more dire warnings. There are plenty of new reasons for despair. Thanks to recent scientific advances, we can now link climate change to specific extreme weather disasters, and we have a better understanding of how the feedback loops in the climate system can make warming even worse. We can also now more confidently forecast catastrophic outcomes if global emissions continue on their current trajectory.

But to me, the most surprising new finding in the Fifth National Climate Assessment is this: There has been genuine progress, too.

I’m used to mind-boggling numbers, and there are many of them in this report. Human beings have put about 1.6 trillion tons of carbon in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution — more than the weight of every living thing on Earth combined. But as we wrote the report, I learned other, even more mind-boggling numbers. In the last decade, the cost of wind energy has declined by 70 percent and solar has declined 90 percent. Renewables now make up 80 percent of new electricity generation capacity. Our country’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling, even as our G.D.P. and population grow.

In the report, we were tasked with projecting future climate change. We showed what the United States would look like if the world warms by 2 degrees Celsius. It wasn’t a pretty picture: more heat waves, more uncomfortably hot nights, more downpours, more droughts. If greenhouse emissions continue to rise, we could reach that point in the next couple of decades. If they fall a little, maybe we can stave it off until the middle of the century. But our findings also offered a glimmer of hope: If emissions fall dramatically, as the report suggested they could, we may never reach 2 degrees Celsius at all.

For the first time in my career, I felt something strange: optimism.

And that simple realization was enough to convince me that releasing yet another climate report was worthwhile.

Something has changed in the United States, and not just the climate. State, local and tribal governments all around the country have begun to take action. Some politicians now actually campaign on climate change, instead of ignoring or lying about it. Congress passed federal climate legislation — something I’d long regarded as impossible — in 2022 as we turned in the first draft.

[Note: She's talking about the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Act, which despite the names were the two biggest climate packages passed in US history. And their passage in mid 2022 was a big turning point: that's when, for the first time in decades, a lot of scientists started looking at the numbers - esp the ones that would come from the IRA's funding - and said "Wait, holy shit, we have an actual chance."]

And while the report stresses the urgency of limiting warming to prevent terrible risks, it has a new message, too: We can do this. We now know how to make the dramatic emissions cuts we’d need to limit warming, and it’s very possible to do this in a way that’s sustainable, healthy and fair.

The conversation has moved on, and the role of scientists has changed. We’re not just warning of danger anymore. We’re showing the way to safety.

I was wrong about those previous reports: They did matter, after all. While climate scientists were warning the world of disaster, a small army of scientists, engineers, policymakers and others were getting to work. These first responders have helped move us toward our climate goals. Our warnings did their job.

To limit global warming, we need many more people to get on board... We need to reach those who haven’t yet been moved by our warnings. I’m not talking about the fossil fuel industry here; nor do I particularly care about winning over the small but noisy group of committed climate deniers. But I believe we can reach the many people whose eyes glaze over when they hear yet another dire warning or see another report like the one we just published.

The reason is that now, we have a better story to tell. The evidence is clear: Responding to climate change will not only create a better world for our children and grandchildren, but it will also make the world better for us right now.

Eliminating the sources of greenhouse gas emissions will make our air and water cleaner, our economy stronger and our quality of life better. It could save hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives across the country through air quality benefits alone. Using land more wisely can both limit climate change and protect biodiversity. Climate change most strongly affects communities that get a raw deal in our society: people with low incomes, people of color, children and the elderly. And climate action can be an opportunity to redress legacies of racism, neglect and injustice.

I could still tell you scary stories about a future ravaged by climate change, and they’d be true, at least on the trajectory we’re currently on. But it’s also true that we have a once-in-human-history chance not only to prevent the worst effects but also to make the world better right now. It would be a shame to squander this opportunity. So I don’t just want to talk about the problems anymore. I want to talk about the solutions. Consider this your last warning from me."

-via New York Times. Opinion essay by leading climate scientist Kate Marvel. November 18, 2023.