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You Are the Consciousness of the Universe

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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Is There a Space of Alert Stillness?

There are two types of knowing in this world. One is conceptual, a conceptual mind. The other type of knowing is non-conceptual and that's far greater. That's intuitive knowing. And you look at something and you know but you don't call it anything. So the practice then of not adding unnecessary narrative to what is and suddenly you become free, you're just alert. Wow. But what does that imply? What does it imply when as we say, not adding a narrative? What is a narrative? A narrative is a sequence of thoughts. If you're aware but you're not interpreting, not conceptually, there's a deep knowing in that awareness but it's not

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