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May 2022
36m 55s

Glimpses Of Awareness

OPRAH AND ECKHART TOLLE
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Eckhart answers questions about our identification with the ego and our thoughts. He says the light of consciousness is relentlessly gobbled up by the mind and turned into thinking. He believes practicing presence is the only immunity against our thoughts. He says as we begin to awaken, we have glimpses of awareness. Eckhart says we don’t have to wait for th ... Show More
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