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Opportunities For Surrender

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

CHAPTER

The Importance of Attention in Daily Life

Your task is to live, one could say, in both worlds or both dimensions at the same time. Occasionally you may lose yourself in the worldly or horizontal dimension and usually when that happens you will notice dysfunctional unpleasant inner states rising very quickly. And if there is no trouble you will create it. But what's on an individual level and collectively, as much as possible, have the main focus of your attention in your daily life in the present moment. It's not the physical location, but the state of consciousness, transcendent state of consciousness.

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