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The Everyday and the Transcendent

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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The Awareness of the Presence

When you know that you are in a state of fear, there is a witnessing consciousness that there's a fear in me. It means you are not the fear. You stepped out a little bit of it from there. Without the knowing, you are the fear. So it takes you over completely. And this knowing is the awareness of the presence. The first appearance of a deeper, we could either say deeper or higher dimension of consciousness in you. That is beyond thought. And that is the purpose of your life. Beyond what you do, the horizontal dimension is this awakening. But to stay awake, so that you can live in these two dimensions, the vertical and the horizontal. Jesus said

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