Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Enthusiasm

Through enthusiasm you enter into full alignment with the outgoing creativeprinciple of the universe but without identifying with its creations, thatis to say, without the ego. Where there is no identification, there is noattachment—one of the great sources of suffering. Once a wave of creativeenergy has passed, structural tension diminishes and the joy in what you aredoing remains. Nobody can live in enthusiasm all the time. A new wave ofenergy may come later and lead to renewed enthusiasm.

Eckhart Tolle