Short excerpt from a talk by Eckhart Tolle emphasizing the need to balance 'doing' (task-focused activity) with 'being' (spacious awareness). The speaker warns that when we get lost in doing under pressure we lose awareness of being; maintaining awareness of being allows doing to be balanced and sane.
When things need to get done, things need doing. There's a whole list of things that you haven't done yet. And there's pressure on you. And then you completely forget that. There is this background in you of spacious awareness. It's just not there anymore. You don't know it's there. Another way of putting it is to say you get lost in doing. And you get lost in doing by losing awareness of being. For a balanced and sane human life, you need awareness of being. And then you do. Doing and being are in some kind of balance.
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