How many people does it take to make your life into a spiritual practice? Never mind if your partner will not cooperate. Sanity — consciousness — can only come into this world through you. You do not need to wait for the world to become sane, or for somebody else to become conscious, before you can be enlightened. You may wait forever. Do not accuse each other of being unconscious. The moment you start to argue, you have identified with a mental position and are now defending not only that position but also your sense of self. The ego is in charge. You have become unconscious. At times, it may
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This is very interesting. Because to me here, he responds to my problem of pretentiousness. There is no pretentiousness or this notion of "I am now enlightened and you are not" (judgement). From this space I understand that there is no judgement of the self nor the other. Everything seems to happen within love and comprehension. Not in an attempt for ever lasting self improvement but as a nudge to a different and new opportunity of existence. Eckhart Tolle is not laying down a normative imperative. I read it rather, as an olive branch offering of a different existence,yet he does make a statement that this is the only way to 'save humanity' and that may surely be more controversial.
