Opportunities For Surrender
Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings
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The Importance of Alertness
alertness in a human is associated with being tense. But there's an alertness without tension, which can help you to avoid dangerous situations. You see how animals in that sense are very alert? Because if they are not, they get eaten by other animals. So many animals have this incredible alertness. Not the same as the human alertness, but it is. An alert awareness of their surroundings. That many humans don't have. They walk in the street. They're not really there. In their mind, thinking about all kinds of things, except where they are. And so they're not here.
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