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Necessary Adversity
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You will inevitably encounter adversity in life, either personal or on a collective level…Millions are in a state of anxiety. But use this as an opportunity to wake up. It is an opportunity to realize…and pay more attention to your own conscience than to the news…
Humans do not wake up in their comfort zone, they wake up when they are taken out of their comfort zone, when they can no longer bear suffering or unhappiness. Feel the vitality, become aware of that presence that is inseparable from who you are. That is an incredible accomplishment! There is more to you than the person! That presence is deeper than the person. You needed adversity to find it or to deepen fulfillment.
There is a saying that goes: ‘When the ego cries over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has found.’ What looks bad and very negative on the surface, as an obstacle to the well-being of humanity from the conventional point of view, has an essential function.
So this is a time of great opportunity. Use it. Do not waste it. Don’t get lost in the mind. Don’t get lost in fear. To be rooted in this rock that is your essence identity.”
~ Eckhart Tolle
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“So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I…
