[Lekooks] Have to Share

[Christine Kunert]

Good Morning Friends,

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 morning.

Dear friends,

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. 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.

When we meet with loss, disruption of our lives or any kind of adversity,
there is not only DANGER, but also OPPORTUNITY.

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.

More fundamentally, however, the danger is of an inner nature. 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.

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. In other words, we regress
to a lower level of consciousness and are completely in the grip of the
collective ego.

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.

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. This
realization represents the opportunity that is opening up for us at this
time.

The world situation is now calling more and more of us to take this inner
journey toward conscious evolution.

You are, essentially, not a person! You are the consciousness of the
Universe or, as Jesus put it, “You are the light of the world”. Paradoxical
as it may seem, there is no better time to discover this truth within
yourself than a time of adversity!

I look forward to sharing with you more about these powerful teachings!

With you on the journey,
ET
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