Before I begin my sermon, the second in my three-part sermon series on the philosophy of Eckhart Tolle, I invite you into a moment of quiet centering. If you find that your resistance to this exercise is too strong for you to comfortably participate, please remain silent so that others are able to center their minds.

These are Tolle's words:
God, or your essential nature, is not something, [it is] not content, not form. The best description through words is to say...what it is not. And then, you are left with what it is, which cannot be named... [But it] can be known, [it just] cannot be known conceptually, because every concept is again a name, and a form.
[God, or the Universal Nature, or your essential nature,] can be known simply, easily, in the silent place of stillness, which is in everyone. Underneath the mental noise. No matter how heavy and turbulent the mental/emotional noise may be, no matter how heavy the egoic sense of self is, in everyone is their essential nature, is the stillness of pure consciousness...Your essence, not separate from the essence of the Universe.

[How do we experience the stillness of pure consciousness?]

Try a little experiment. Close your eyes and say to yourself: "I wonder what my next thought is going to be." Then become very alert and wait for the next thought. Be like a cat watching a mouse hole. What thought is going to come out of the mouse hole? Try it now.