Eckhart Tolle on Balancing Acceptance and Manifestation

So how to reconcile accepting what arises in the present moment and at the same time perhaps holding in your mind an image of what you want to manifest in your life, or using affirmations. Now that's the. Perhaps that's the most important part of manifesting living in this world is to bring the two together. Accepting whatever arises in the present moment without losing the ability to. In your day to day life, in your personal and professional life, without losing the ability to have goals, for example, and move towards goals, or to have certain aims. When you practice manifestation techniques, it might, you might do it as set aside a few minutes every day, maybe twice a day, and maybe in the morning and in the evening. When you focus on something that you want to manifest the rest of the time you live your life without continuously thinking about something that is other, other than what arises in the present moment. So it's important. The very foundation for successful living, but also the very foundation for manifesting things, is to be deeply accepting of whatever the present moment brings. To face it in that state of acceptance. If you're not in a state of acceptance, it's a state of acceptance that takes you deeper into the vertical dimension which is beyond ego. The state of non acceptance keeps you trapped in egoic limit, very limited egoic consciousness. So when you are in opposition to the present moment in whatever form it arises, and that's very easy to fall back into that even for spiritual practitioners, so to speak, fall back into this deep seated habit of being in opposition to what arises in the present moment. So the. It's vital to recognize that something that is the case now cannot be otherwise in this moment. This is beyond any doubt. It is, because that's how it is. You cannot wish it away or say it shouldn't be. It is whatever is arising now is. It's dysfunctional. To argue with it or to create some kind of mental, emotional resistance to does not mean that change cannot take place. It does not mean that you cannot take action in order to manifest something that you would prefer. But the important thing is at this moment there's no division nor there's no antagonism between you and what you experience as your reality. That's very important not to have an antagonistic relationship with whatever arises in the present moment.