United States of Awareness.

In this episode, Eckhart talks to a live audience with participants from around the world.

He calls them the United States of Awareness.

He says awakening humans are experiencing a metamorphosis, like caterpillars becoming butterflies.

He emphasizes the most important thing that we

must tend to is our state of consciousness, letting go of our judgments and our reactivity. He urges us to

make it a practice that whatever happens in our lives, accept that it's exactly what we need in that moment for our spiritual growth.

This evening, probably, I'm mainly going to talk about how to be here, about your state of consciousness here.

I'm saying probably because you never know

what comes out of the present moment.

The most important thing here,

which, by the way, is also the most important thing

in your entire life, your state of consciousness, no matter what's going on in your life,

where you are, who you are with, or what you're doing.

The primary factor in whatever you're experiencing

is your state of consciousness,

because it is through your particular state of consciousness

that you experience things.

So if you are heavily identified with the conditioned thinking mind

and all its preconditioned beliefs, opinions, judgments,

then that's the way you perceive the world through the veil of that.

If there are turbulent or heavy emotions running through you that you are identified with,

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