Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Practice of Presence

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Jun 3, 2021
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INSIGHT

Presence Is Awareness Beyond Thought

  • Presence arises when you free yourself from incessant thinking and unconscious reactivity.
  • That presence is a state of pure awareness you can access without willpower by sensing breath or the inner body.
ADVICE

Use Breath And Body To Exit Thought

  • Move attention from thinking to sensory perception, the inner body, or natural breathing to stop thinking.
  • Follow the breath and then let go of focus to remain above thought and enter presence.
INSIGHT

People Vary By Moment, Not Fixed Identity

  • People fluctuate between consciousness and unconsciousness; the same person can act very differently at different times.
  • Trust others to behave according to their level of consciousness in that moment rather than to a fixed identity.
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