Life After Awareness | Do You Let The Universe Take Control? with Eckhart Tolle

When taking conscious creative action, you must maintain awareness of the energy field behind the action to prevent ego from reasserting itself and severing your connection to the power source.

“important is not be aware of the energy field behind the action that you take so that you don't lose the presence because the ego even there can still take over”

Once you become aware of creative power within yourself, you don't necessarily need a predetermined plan; creative activity can spontaneously and organically grow without prior planning, with the consciousness taking over the direction.

“when you are in touch with the creative power within you either way may be the case for some people something just spontaneously and organically grows and before they know it they are engaged in some inspired and empowered activity it may start very small and they may not even know that how it's going to grow and develop it's just the the consciousness takes over and they didn't plan it”

A person can become aware of something that wants to be created (not that they personally want to create it), which comes from a deeper level of consciousness as an image or thought, and this represents a different kind of plan from ego-plans because it is not limited by personal needs or self-seeking.

“for others something may come to them suddenly a mental and image of something that wants to i put it that way i say that wants to be created it's not so much i want to create this when something comes to you from a deeper level it feels more like that this wants to be created so it comes an image or a thought even comes to you and then you suddenly know what it is that wants to be created through you”

Struggle and hardship are reliable indicators that ego is present in one's planning or action; when you are struggling, it is a sign that ego structures are still operating, which distinguishes struggle from intensity of creative action.

“and you get it's it's hard it's a struggle that's always a sign that there's there's the ego somewhere that's it's you're struggling i'm not talking about intensity things that pla plans so you have ego plans they are really there's always a hidden self-seeking in whatever the plan might be”

There are two primary pathways for creative unfoldment: spontaneous evolution where creative impulse develops without prior conscious planning, and deliberate inspiration where something arises clearly in consciousness as needing to be created, with the common factor being alignment with consciousness rather than ego.

“so to summarize for some there's just a spontaneous evolution of the creative impulse into the external and it happens through them without any prior plan for others something arises some in their minds and say yes this is what i need to do this is what wants to come into being through me i feel that very strongly and then you take action”

During conscious creative action, there is an intense energy behind the action that flows joyfully, which is completely different from stress; this joyful intensity can sweep away obstacles or transform them into something helpful, whereas ego-driven intensity attacks obstacles and people.

“now i'm not saying that there cannot there's not going to be an intense energy behind when you're engaged in creative activity there is intense energy behind it which from an external viewpoint can sometimes be misinterpreted almost as stress but it's not stress at all it's just intensity of energy behind creation it is but it's joyful it's it's intense but joyful and you can you can feel in that intensity when you're in the midst of some creation happening through you enormous intensity of energy and that's but very different from stress stress is always there's a it's not flowing but this this intensity is is flowing and it deals with obstacle intensity deals with obstacles in a very different way from the ego the intensity can sweep away obstacles or it can transform obstacles into something helpful even humans it doesn't attack another thing to be”

When your creation is aligned with what the universe wants to happen, it becomes enormously empowered with external support, as expressed in the metaphor of catching a tide or riding a wave that the universe provides.

“yes you find obstacles when you create something but as i just mentioned also you encounter the phenomenon of being supported if if if your creation is aligned with what the universe wants then you it becomes enormously empowered it's like riding on a huge wave somebody wrote a poem or something about it was it shakespeare it starts with there is a tide in the affairs of men and if i can't remember the rest but so if if you catch that tide which is the tide of something wanting to be created through you and that movement and then you're riding on this enormous wave”

When something wants to be created through you, you can recognize an inspired plan by the absence of self-seeking motivation, even though things like fame, wealth, or recognition may come as byproducts of the creation.

“so something may come to you then it's something that and then you you can say oh i have a plan and it'll be inspired and there's no self-seeking in it in other words you're not looking to whatever it is that wants to be created through you you're not looking to it for happiness or self-enhancement or fame or even or wealth that those things may come you may get framed you may get wealths you may get those things as by-products but that's not the reason why this creation happens through you the there is no self-seeking”

Consciousness plays through the creation of form and can do so through human beings, making the creative process deeply enjoyable for both the consciousness and the individual who becomes a channel for it.

“the universe enjoys that consciousness enjoys the play of form and it can happen through you and it's deeply enjoyable so something may come to you then”

When you become a channel for universal creative energy through aligned action, you generate an enormous outflow of energy into the world, and the universe reciprocates by giving back to you in material and non-material forms, following the principle that what you give returns to you.

“if there's an enormous energy output from you into the world it's not yours of course there's no personal energy it will be a misperception but if you become a channel for that universal energy then of course things will come back to you even usually also in material forms so there will be if there's an enormous outflow an enormous giving not yours but as a channel things will come back to you because if you give out to the universe the universe gives back”

Obstacles are inevitable when beginning to create something new, and they appear in multiple forms: direct barriers in the external environment, and resistance from people who are stuck in mind patterns and resist anything new.

“when obst when you find obstacles because there's always some obstacle that you encounter when you begin to create something new there will be some obstacles there will also be enormous help coming not necessarily immediately perhaps immediately but at some point you will notice an influx of supportive energy but you may also encounter obstacles in the form of people who don't want you to create something new people who are so stuck in their mind patterns they resist anything new”

When you encounter obstacles and respond with negativity, attack, or stress, you are losing power and allowing the ego to take over, severing your connection to the universal creative energy.

“so if then if you encounter an obstacle and there's negativity or attack you're attacking then you're losing quickly losing power the ego is attempting to take over”

Stress, upset, anxiety, and complaining are reliable indicators that you have lost alignment with the creative power within you and that ego is attempting to reassert control of your actions.

“so whenever you are trying hard or struggling or stress arises stress is another indicator that you are no longer fully aligned with the power within then is you become stressed upset anxious complaining attacking somebody you're losing power quickly”

A musician who simply loves playing and is enjoying the doing can spontaneously develop a full musical career without having planned it, through a person discovering them and inviting them into professional studios.

“you could have a musician who is just loves playing this instrument and then he just is at a street corner playing his instrument and then somebody comes and says oh this is great try don't you try come to a studio and it can develop from there without him having had any plan just enjoying the doing”

The universe demonstrates that consciousness enjoys the creation of form and multiplicity through the billions of different life forms on Earth and throughout the cosmos, suggesting that creation has purpose beyond what can be fully intellectually understood, though we can have intuitive understanding of its nature.

“just look around and you see that the universe loves to create multiplicity incredible multiplicity of life forms everywhere throughout the cosmos just planet earth alone just look at the billions of life forms so obviously the universe enjoys the creation of form and it has some purpose that we cannot conceptually rationally intellectually fully understand although we can have an inkling of why but we cannot fully understand what the ultimate purpose of the creation of forms is”

Ego plans are deeply flawed because the ego seeks itself through its plans—they are fundamentally driven by self-enhancement needs rather than authentic creation, and any action taken to carry out ego plans will also be flawed and bring heartache and problems to oneself and others.

“whatever plan the ego has is very limited by its needs the ego really seeks itself through its plans it seeks an enhancement of itself so those are the plans that the ego creates and they are flawed deeply flawed and whatever action you take in order to carry out the ego's plans it's also going to be deeply flawed and will bring about a lot of heartache and problems and creates problems more and more for yourself and others”

The creation wave carries a creative impulse to completion, after which the wave subsides and there is often a withdrawal period before new creation begins, and this varies from person to person in duration and intensity.

“and at some point the creation then happens and so then that wave comes to an end and then there may be a time period when there's more for withdrawal before new creation happens so that varies from person to person”

Plans arising from deeper unconditioned consciousness are free of hidden self-seeking because they originate from the universe's own creative impulse to create form through you, not from personal ego enhancement.

“but the plans that i'm talking about here come from a deeper level within yourself that's why i i usually say not that you want to create this or that but it wants to be created through you and so there is a the deeper the unconditioned wants to create form through you because it loves the creation of form”