The purpose of your life is becoming conscious. In this podcast, Eckhart talks about

outgrowing unconsciousness. He says, only awareness can free us of our

resentments, judgments, and negative thinking. Those deeply ingrained patterns that

keep us stuck. He says, as our awareness grows, we realize we have choices at

how we respond to life situations and we are no longer at the mercy of our

conditioning. When we finally recognize these patterns for what they are, we

transcend them. We don't have to be prisoner to a dysfunctional past. Eckhart says,

as we move toward greater consciousness, we are in deeper alignment not only

with ourselves but also with the purpose of the universe.

It's a good thing the chair is still there.

That's called mindful sitting down.

I'm sorry that some of you have to let go of your seats.

And perhaps others have to let go of their resentment.

There's always something to let go of. Sometimes thoughts, abstract thoughts,

emotional thoughts are harder to let go of than material things. Although ultimately,

your attachment to material things is also really an attachment to a thought of

form because the only way in which you experience really a material thing is in

the realm of the invisible, in the realm of the mind because you might think

that there's a car there, let's say it's a material thing. Let's say it is a car that

is favoured by the ego. I can't think of it name, Rolls-Royce,

Maserati, Lombard Gide, Testeros, Testerol, just something.

But when you experience the car or anything, before you experience it, it becomes,

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