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The Shift: From Thinking to Awareness

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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Is There a Consciousness?

Even if the whole world is illusion, there must be a consciousness in which this illusion appears and disappears continuously. And that is you as the perceiving and experiencing consciousness, presence. You don't know what it is that is conscious. It doesn't really have a name. The name comes later, and it doesn't have a form really, the form comes later. When something disappears from your perceptual realm, some vision that you see, you close your eyes for a moment, and then your vision disappears.

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