In session 1, Tolle was telling Oprah how we have to have times of stillness in our lives in order to hear life's purpose for us. I've already discussed my unease with asking 'life' for my purpose. However, Tolle went on to discuss it even further.
It seems that when we're listening to 'life', we have to be careful and not act on all of our impulses. They can be wrong based on our mental noise and other such things. However, when told he needed to move to the west coast of North America, Tolle apparently was able to discern that this was truly 'the consciousness' talking to him.
So here's today's question. If we have to be able to discern what is truly life telling us to do something, and what is not, how are we to know? Where does the discernment come from? In Christianity we know. When we sense that God is leading us to do something, we check it against scripture and against Godly counsel. If the thing we're being asked to do doesn't line up with what's laid out for us in scripture, than it cannot be God telling us that.
So who are you going to listen to? Something you don't know and hope you're hearing it correctly, or the Creator of all that we know, who wrote the book on how to live?
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