Eckhart Tolle on why spiritual awakening gets harder around other people. Most people are trapped in their minds, and their identification can pull you back into yours. The real challenge: can you accept someone as they are right now, without your mind's running commentary?
The most challenging thing in your spiritual awakening is other people. Because other people, most of people, are identified with their mind. And they can easily pull you into identification with your mind. And the question is whether you are able to accept the other human as he or she is in this moment, as you accept a place where you are, as you accept a situation you are in without looking to your mind to tell you something about that situation.
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