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The Paradox of Order and Chaos

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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Experience Suffering Is an Opportunity

There's no guarantee that when disorder errupts, or when you suffer, that this will bring about an awakening. Many people have done that in the past because they could see how it operates. When somebody suffers, there is a possibility of transcendence and awakening. Not a guarantee. They may be stuck in their suffering until they die, or they may die of their suffering. And then say, oh, care i need to make myself suffer. And i need to give up everything and make myself suffer... But often it is not. It is missed. Then the persons become even more deeply entrenched in their egoic sense of self that it becomes very rigid. Instead of having given them

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