Coming soon to Miss Ross Live! “A New Earth for #GirlsLikeUs” If you follow Oprah Winfrey then you’ve probably heard of Eckhart Tolle, and the book “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose”. Oprah held a 10 Week Online Web class that went into depth with the author and callers from around the world. I found this book tremendously helpful in my spiritual development, and want to share pieces of the book that resonated with me as a transgender woman.
“Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t Die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem” – Giving up Role Playing (pg. 109)
“Firstly, the body is male or female, and so the sense of being a man or woman takes up a significant part of most people’s sense of self. Gender becomes identity. Identification with gender is encouraged at an early age, and it forces you into a role, into conditioned patterns of behavior that affect all aspects of your life, not just sexuality. It is a role many people become completely trapped in.” (pg. 49)
“In some cases, the mental image or concept of “my body” is a complete distortion of reality” (pg. 41)
“If the sufferer could look at her body without the interfering judgments of her mind or even recognize those judgments for what they are instead of believing in them, or better still, if she could feel her body from within – this would initiate her healing. (pg. 50)
“When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.” (pg. 26)
“We Cannot really honor things if we use them as a means to self-enhancement, that is to say, if we try to find ourselves through them.” (pg. 37)
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. HOw do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.” (pg 41)
“The more the sufferer sees himself persecuted, spied on, or threatened by others, the more pronounced becomes his sense of being the center of the universe around whom everything revolves, and the more special and important he feels as the imagined focal point of so many people’s attention” (pg. 120)
“His sense of being a victim, of being wronged by so many people, makes him feel very special. In the story that forms the basis of his delusional system, he often assigns to himself the role of both victim and potential hero who is join got save the world or defeat the evil forces.” (pg. 120)
“It is the emotional pain that is your unavoidable com anion when a false sense of self is the basis of your life.” (pg. 142)
@missrosslive Great reminder to detach oneself from limitations of gender/body on sense of self. #GirlsLikeUs
— Janet Mock (@janetmock) June 10, 2012
