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The Shift: From Thinking to Awareness

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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There's More to Everything That You Perceive Than Meets the Eye

When you can no longer perceive the universe as being essentially alive and vastly intelligent, then you inhabit a dead world that has become dead. You cannot feel that there is more to everything that you perceive than meets the eye. There's infinitely more in a way one could say all you perceive with sensory perception is a surface layer, surface level of reality. And behind that, there is, as Max Planck, the physicist said, a intelligent and conscious spirit. That is the matrix of all matter, even matter arises out of that. So it's not my consciousness, it does not originate in me. There's only one vast consciousness, there isn't my consciousness and your consciousness. There's

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