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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 6, 2020 8:42:53 AM<br>
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<div>I am no longer on Facebook, so I couldn't share this there, but it is such a great message, I thought I'd share it with you, my almost-as-good-as FB community. I am a member of the Eckhart Tolle community group, and I received this in my gmail inbox this
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box">Thank you for being here at a time when our world continues to go through a series of major challenges impacting both individuals and the collective. <span style="box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:700">There
is no doubt that humanity is at a critical point in its evolutionary journey toward transcendence of egoic dysfunction and a more awakened consciousness.</span></span></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box">When we meet with loss, disruption of our lives or any kind of adversity, there is not only DANGER, <span style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:700">but also OPPORTUNITY.</span></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box">There are two dimensions to the danger we are faced with collectively, particularly at the present time. On the one hand, there is the real possibility of experiencing adversity on the level of physicality, such as sickness,
loss of livelihood, natural disasters, social and economic breakdown, violence, and so on. Life in the realm of physicality is, of course, fleeting and precarious even in the best of times.</div>
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box">More fundamentally, however, the danger is of an inner nature. <span style="box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">It is the possibility of a serious deterioration in our mental/emotional
state, our state of consciousness. This happens when we are overcome by reactivity and then find ourselves at the mercy of unconscious forces such as fear, anger, despondency, nihilism, or rigid and unquestioned collective thought forms that seek to assert
tyrannical control over our lives. Loss of critical thinking happens when thinking is no longer rooted in awareness. </span></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">When awareness is lost, we easily become possessed by the hive-mind as represented by our mainstream and social media. Our rational faculties
are seriously impaired and our decision-making turns dysfunctional. This exacerbates rather than alleviates our problems. </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">In other words, we regress to a lower level
of consciousness and are completely in the grip of the collective ego.</span></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:700">When we recognize that the greatest danger we are facing is the loss of consciousness rather than any external situation, we begin to see the OPPORTUNITY that opens up when
faced with major challenges. </span></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box">It is the realization that the primary and decisive factor is never the situation we find ourselves in, but the state of consciousness with which we face the situation. This determines whether any action we take makes matters
worse or is helpful and beneficial. Furthermore, what becomes your reality in the future is intrinsically connected to your state of consciousness in the present. More often than not, the primacy of this inner dimension is not realized except through the pressure
of suffering created by seemingly insurmountable challenges in the outer dimension. <span style="box-sizing:border-box; padding:0px; background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">This realization represents the opportunity that is opening up for us at this time.</span></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:700">The world situation is now calling more and more of us to take this inner journey toward conscious evolution.</span></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box">You are, essentially, not a person! You are the consciousness of the Universe or, as Jesus put it, <span style="box-sizing:border-box; font-weight:700">“You are the light of the world”</span>. Paradoxical as it may seem, there
is no better time to discover this truth within yourself than a time of adversity!</div>
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box">I look forward to sharing with you more about these powerful teachings!</div>
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<div style="box-sizing:border-box">With you on the journey,</div>
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