Eunike Says

This afternoon, out of the blue, I vaguely remembered a quote by Brad Pitt in one of his sci-fi films where he was an astronaut. But I forgot the exact words. So I googled: brad pitt quote film astronaut.   The results showed up and reminded me that the film title was Ad Astra.  And this was the quote: "I am focused only on the essential, to the exclusion of all else.  I will make only pragmatic decisions.  I will not allow myself to be distracted.  I will not allow my mind to linger on that which is unimportant." He said those words every single time he was about to get on a rocket plane.  Such intense message, right? I was mesmerized. I had this kind of a paradox feeling upon reading it. It sounds sceptical yet encouraging at the same time. But then after reading it many times over, a question struck me: what is important?  Living right here, right now? Living a slow simple life? Living life for a bigger, greater purpose than just clinging to an ephe...

[This was written around 3 months ago.] For a past few months, I listened to a lot of Eckhart Tolle’s teachings. In one of his teachings, He shared the story of his father’s anger issue which made him had to go through a miserable and fearful childhood. He resented his father for that. Nonetheless, at one point of his life, Eckhart found the inner peace and forgiveness happened. He said, “It was as if he has never done anything. I realized he did what he did according to the way in which life has conditioned him.” Eckhart regarded his father as someone who was ‘as much as a victim as myself’.   It is a profound wisdom that we all actually have inside us. Those who hurt as, those who put us into what we think as a depressing life, is in fact as much as a victim as ourselves. What they did was wrong, but they are conditioned to choose what they chose to do. And we also need to remember that it is through them life teaches us to liberate ourselves from suffering. It is throu...