Transforming our consciousness through adversity.

In this episode, Eckhart reassures us that we should not panic when life's difficulties arise

because they can become our greatest teachers.

He says it's often hardship and suffering that play a critical role in the evolution of our consciousness.

Without it, we would not feel the urgency to change,

nor would be learned to lead what Eckhart calls an awakened life.

Any kind of adversity in your life,

whether it's personal,

the personal kind, of a collective kind,

the only way for it not to become converted

into suffering is for you to go deeper and realize who or what you are beyond the conditioned mind.

And the strange thing is that adversity is absolutely essential

for the evolution of consciousness.

Although it seems to block what one could call

perhaps the flowering of your life,

it seems to, when you look at it superficially,

all the so-called bad things that happen to you that go wrong,

they seem to block you from fully being yourself,

fully expressing yourself, being able to do what you want to do.

And so this, that's what I earlier called sabotage, that is experienced as life or God,

or whatever, trying to sabotage your life.

That happens very frequently.

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