Speaking in Belfast, Ireland, Eckhart Tolle traces the awakening of human consciousness from the inception of the ego to life after the realization of our essential nature.
Eckhart Tolle is widely recognized as one of the most original and inspiring spiritual teachers of our time. He travels and teaches throughout the world.
Eckhart is not aligned with any particular religion or tradition, but excludes none. His profound yet simple and practical teachings have helped thousands of people find inner peace, healing and greater fulfillment in their lives. At the core of his teachings lies the transformation of individual and collective human consciousness - a global spiritual awakening.
Eckhart Tolle is the author of The Power of Now, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, which has been translated into 32 languages and become one of the most influential spiritual books of our time.
In his most recent book, A New Earth, he shows how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world.
The greatest mystery of the universe
is not out in outer space,
the mysteries of the galaxies,
the mysteries of the black holes,
the billions of galaxies that exist,
that it is phenomenal, it's unbelievable.
And the greatest mystery is not on the atomic level,
which is also unbelievable,
that the world that is there,
the atomic and subatomic level that scientists explore,
which we only understand a tiny fragment of,
just as we only understand the tiniest of fragments
of what is out there.
So you have the two realms, the two mysteries,
the outer space, and then the macrocosm,
and you have the microcosm.
And people write books, great scientists write books
about the mysteries of the universe.
And the amazing thing is, many of these books,
very good books, fail to mention one word.
They explore the mysteries of the universe,
but there's one word, you can have a whole book
on the mysteries of the universe,
either the macrocosm or the microcosm
or the two together.
The one word that's not mentioned is consciousness,
which is the foremost fundamental mystery,
the fact that the universe is conscious.
That is the most amazing miracle.
How do I know that the universe is conscious?
Well, I am conscious, you are conscious.
The universe is conscious in us.
The universe is experiencing itself for a brief moment
as a human being.
It's also experiencing itself for brief moments
as a plant or an animal, and that's an amazing thing.
Now, scientists are probably never going to figure out
what consciousness is, if it's even possible
to figure out what consciousness is,
because scientists is concerned with looking out there.
You can either look out into outer space
or you look into the most, the innermost of matter.
But what scientists don't look at is their own consciousness,
which is the universe looking at itself.
Hehehe.
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