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The World Will Always Challenge You

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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The Importance of Being a Conceptual Entity

I'm not against learning because there are the two dimensions admittedly you can learn many very interesting things about the forest. But are they really there or are they in their conceptual mind and the actual experience of the forest is a peripheral event mainly they are in the conceptual structures of their mind. So that's how I avoided being trapped in that by staying behind... Our civilization has lost the balance. It's trapped in one way of knowing only and the deeper way of knowing which is associated with the vertical dimension. Nobody in mainstream culture teaches you that or talks about it or even knows about it. They don't know about it. And again, know thyself, it applies here also. You can

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