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The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

Eckhart Tolle
Dream, Sleep, Challenges
Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.74, New World Library

When you feel confused or burdened by problems focus on THIS INSTANT and ask yourself: WHAT PROBLEM DO I HAVE RIGHT NOW? You will find that there is no problem NOW. A challenge that requires action, possibly, but not a problem.

Eckhart Tolle
Confused, Focus, Challenges

Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation.

Eckhart Tolle
Opportunity, Challenges, Salvation

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose

Eckhart Tolle
Worry, Challenges, Purpose

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be Spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. You would immediately accept the situation and thus become one with it rather than separate yourself from it.

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People, Challenges, Want
Eckhart Tolle (2009). “A New Earth: Create a Better Life”, p.137, Penguin UK

I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing is to bring the awareness into everyday life, into every little action that you do, into the varied challenges of everyday life.

Eckhart Tolle
Meditation, Challenges, Everyday
Source: rayhemachandra.com

So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.

Eckhart Tolle
Real, Thinking, Challenges
"Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now.

Eckhart Tolle
Space, Challenges, Attention
FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 01, 2010

Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

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Challenges, Action, Moments
Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

Hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, then you're present. If they say something challenging and you lose it again, pause, and anchor again. Practice, practice, continuous practice-becaus e when you're in touch with the inner body, spaciousness arises.

Eckhart Tolle
Practice, Anchors, Challenges
FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jul 01, 2011

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

Eckhart Tolle
Sleep, Challenges, Littles
Source: rayhemachandra.com

Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender to what is. Some people may need more of that than others. If you choose presence in your daily life you may not need the drastic challenges.

Eckhart Tolle
Flames, People, Challenges
FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Aug 25, 2011

I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes people watch me. It's a challenge. But it's usually people who want to say 'your book transformed my life', or something... so then I'm joyful. One moment before, I didn't want them to recognise me, but when they do, I'm glad.

Eckhart Tolle
Book, People, Challenges

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