There is a moment that happens occasionally in a nightmare. Something is chasing you, and then you realise you are dreaming. The fear drains away, because none of it can touch you now. And if you turn toward the monster, and are simply friendly to it, it stops being a monster and becomes something else entirely. Eckhart Tolle uses that as a picture of what changes when awareness arrives, and he describes the mechanism precisely. Thinking does not stop. It slows considerably, and a great deal of it turns out to be unnecessary, but thoughts still come. What changes is that they no longer carry a sense of self. Before, you looked for yourself in every thought, so a thought saying this is unbearable was a statement about you. Afterwards, the same thought arrives, finds nobody home, and subsides. It is just a thought. Then something else becomes possible. When thought is no longer the master, it becomes the servant, and a remarkably good one. Every creative impulse, every intuition, every idea that arrives whole comes from that quieter place rather than from effort. He makes a sharp observation about this. Creative people usually have some access to it, but often only inside the narrow territory of their work. Present and alive while making something, and entirely lost the rest of the time. Which is not enough, he says. The point is not to be awake in one room of your life. Eckhart goes much further into this in the full session. Join Eckhart Tolle Now to watch. 👇
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Eckhart Tolle is widely recognized as one of the most inspiring and visionary spiritual teachers in the world today. With his international bestsellers, _The Power of Now_ and _A New Earth_ —translated into more than 50 languages—he has introduced millions to the joy and freedom of living life in the present moment. The New York Times has described him as “the most popular spiritual author in the United States,” and in 2011, Watkins Review (now Watkins Mind Body Spirit) named him “the most spiritually influential person in the world.”
Eckhart’s profound yet simple teachings have helped countless people around the globe experience a state of vibrantly alive inner peace in their daily lives. His teachings focus on the significance and power of Presence, the awakened state of consciousness, which transcends ego and discursive thinking. Eckhart sees this awakening as the essential next step in human evolution.
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