A New Earth Webcast - Chapter 10

• Be aware of being aware
  
  
• The expansion and contraction cycle of life
  
  
• The unmanifested Source of all life expresses itself through each of us
  
  
• Each life form is a unique way in which the universe manifests itself
  
  

• The outgoing movement of childhood and adulthood seeks worldly experience, attainment and success
  
  
• The return movement in late life seeks to return to our spiritual source
  
  
• Aging and illness can be an opening to the realm of spirit
  
  
• Identification with the surface level of life creates unhappiness
  
  

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• Struggle and stress are signs of the ego
  
  
• Our state of consciousness is the primary factor in creativity; the doing is secondary
  
  
• It's not what you do, but how you do it, that determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny
  
  
• 3 modalities of awakening: acceptance, enjoyment, enthusiasm
  
  

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• How to practice the teachings when dealing with difficult people
  
  
• Living a life of presence is a gradual process
  
  
• Developing spiritual muscle
  
  
• Accepting each moment knowing that "this too shall pass"
  Bringing conscious awareness into everything you do
  
  

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• Obnoxious and difficult people are affected by a heavy overlay of ego
  
  
• The more present you are, the more clear you are about your choices
  
  
• How to have goals and vision while living in the present
  
  
• When you ask for something, believe you have already received it
  
  

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• Goals and vision are empowered by our present state of being, not our future plans
  
  
• The place of power is in the present moment
  
  
• When you are aligned with your inner purpose, the evolving impulse of the universe will rise up to meet you
  
  
• You must completely accept the present moment to fully receive its power
  
  

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• Eckhart's teachings can be applied to any religion or to no religion
  
  
• Acceptance is not the same as condoning
  
  
• Evil is the expression of spiritual ignorance
  
  
• You begin to change the world by changing yourself
  
  

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• When the thinking mind won't surrender to stillness
  
  
• Dis-identification from the process of thinking
  
  
• Don't fight thoughts, just observe them
  
  
• The mind is like a restless puppy
  
  

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• Awakened doing
  
  
• What inner state of consciousness are you bringing to each moment?
  
  
• Accept what you're doing, or don't do it
  
  
• Resistance to the present moment creates suffering
  
  

• Do what you do because you enjoy it, not because you want it
  
  
• Becoming motivated by enjoyment rather than wanting
  
  
• When the creative power of the universe is expressed through you, it manifests as joy
  
  
• Joy does not come from what you do, but from how you do it
  
  

• When you become more conscious, life lines up in amazing ways
  
  
• You have to be present for the flow of life to flow with you
  
  
• If we deny the present moment, we are denying life
  
  
• Each next step is the most important
  
  

• When we dream at night, are we experiencing ego or spirit?
  
  
• Some dreams, perhaps most, are expressions of ego
  
  
• In deep states of dreamless sleep, we return to the Source of our being
  
  
• Enthusiasm is a powerful and creative spiritual energy
  
  

• Acceptance is not passive resignation, it flows into our doing
  
  
• Alert attention
  
  
• Don't believe your mind when it says you can't do something
  
  
• Choose presence as much as possible in your daily life
  
  

• Challenges become problems when we resist and worry
  
  
• When you are conscious of being conscious, all things come to you as they should
  
  
• A new species is arising on the planet, and we are it
  
  
• You are an opening through which spirit can flow into the world