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,

except 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,

is 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 conditions, thinking mind,

and all its preconditioned beliefs, opinion 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,

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

through the veil of those emotions.

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