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Expressing Our Deeper Purpose

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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Nihilism and the Pandemic

Nihilism is the idea that there's no purpose behind it. The old meaning of the word is pointlessness. That's probably what Nietzsche was talking about when he talked. In the 19th century, God is dead inside. He saw that at an early stage. So that his functional states then result in widespread nihilism. It means still you don't see things clearly and deeply enough. You haven't gone deep enough within yourself. Then you experience fear, you experience anxiety and all those things. There's only one thing that matters absolutely. How important your consciousness is in this world. For human beings to be sane, connected to the deeper, higher intelligence in this world - that

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