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Presence, Healing and Wholeness

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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Suffering Is a Function in the Evolution of Consciousness

Suffering has a certain function in the evolution of consciousness. When you encounter a spiritual teaching or spiritual teacher, that is the moment when that spiritual teacher takes over from suffering the old spiritual teacher. You get handed over to the new one. And for some reason, by some strange synchronistic event, i have two questions, ich may be by the same person, are you happy? The other one, with so much sadness in the world, how can i feel joy? Be happy? Am i happy? Noi wouldn't call it happy. Some people might use that word to point to a very deeper state of connectedness with being. But conventionally, happy really is the

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