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Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

The United States of Awareness

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.64.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Eckhart Tolle talks with a live audience about a phenomenon he sees unfolding: which is the awakening of individuals around the world. He jokes that he could call them The United States of Awareness. He says awakening humans are like hybrids experiencing a metamorphosis, like caterpillars becoming butterflies. He encourages everyone to tend to their state of consciousness and to make it a practice. He says whatever happens in our lives, accept that it’s exactly what we need for our spiritual growth.

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United States of Awareness

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

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He calls them the United States of Awareness.

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

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He emphasizes the most important thing that we must tend to is our state of consciousness,

0:25.0

letting go of our judgments and our reactivity.

0:29.0

He urges us to make it a practice that whatever happens in our lives,

0:34.0

except that it's exactly what we need in that moment for our spiritual growth.

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This evening probably, I'm mainly going to talk about how to be here,

0:51.0

about your state of consciousness here.

0:55.0

I'm saying probably because you never know what comes out of the present moment.

1:04.0

The most important thing here, which by the way is also the most important thing in your entire life,

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

1:15.0

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

1:18.0

The primary factor in whatever you're experiencing is your state of consciousness

1:23.0

because it is through your particular state of consciousness that you experience things.

1:29.0

So, if you are heavily identified with the conditions, thinking mind,

1:36.0

and all its preconditioned beliefs, opinion judgments,

1:42.0

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

1:47.0

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

1:54.0

then you will experience the world around you, other people, situations,

1:59.0

through the veil of those emotions.

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