Creating a Conscious Work Environment | The Conscious Business Challenge (Week 3)

Eckhart Tolle discusses how to bring consciousness and compassion into business and medical work without being crushed by existing systems. He argues for creating new structures that reflect awakened consciousness rather than just working within broken ones.
I'm a quantum physicist by education now. I work with blind people and people are losing their sight to try to preserve the sight. In doing so, I carry a lot of their patience, pain with me all the time. And wherever I look, I see her teaching, whether it's quantum physics, whether it's how the body works. And I try to convey that of my colleagues just to try and not only focus on saving the sight, but also even in a very small part, healing these people, helping them deal with that. However, I'm in the investment world, so I'm always faced with a lot of resistance because it's not conducive to good business to spend too much time being too soft. And I was wondering if you can comment a little bit on how can I help patients and also help the people who are in the business side of things.
Yes.
Thank you.
So you work in a hospital or clinic that specializes in helping people with their side?
Actually, I'm an inventor and I take my inventions. We have an investment firm. So we work with people not only in this country, but other countries to try and find solutions to restore sight for people who have completely lost their sight or preserve whatever sight is left for people, Things like that.
Yes. So in addition to treating the eyes, the eyesight of humans, you realize there's more that you are able to do for them. There's an additional dimension there. And there's a little bit of conflict between this. Again, we come again to the system that you work in and what you feel that you need to do to feel fulfilled and to help others in becoming more conscious, sometimes using their suffering to become more conscious.
Yes.
So is it. You need to see whether you can still. This is very important for you to continue to do that because this is why you are here. It's not just you treat the whole human being, not just one part of the body. Are you able to still do that within the structure that you work now, or can you change it from within, or do you need to create a new structure? It's basically, it's the same question as the previous question. I would not give up. Do not compromise on what you feel you are called upon to do with other human beings. And don't compromise and say, okay, I'll just have to drop this and just treat them to like everybody else. But see if you can still function from within the system and do what you feel you need to do. And if you can't, again, it's a question of doing it in a new way, creating something that makes it Possible for you to work on both levels, on the outer level and the inner level, with human beings. So thank you again. This question comes up very often for many people in different ways. And many of you may find, because you represent the arising and the awakening consciousness, many of you will find that the existing structures within which you work are not able to. To carry the new consciousness anymore. Jesus used this funny expression, new wine in old bottles. Because apparently at the time, the bottles were not glass bottles. They were kind of leather bottles. And for some reason, if you put new one in, they would probably burst. So what that means is many of the existing structures, social structures, that also applies to economic structures. The structures in medicine, psychiatry, psychology, education, school system, university system, Many of those structures, they were created by, not by the awakened consciousness. They've all been around for a long time. And they evolved out of the egoic consciousness. So many of the structures are the products of unenlightened states of consciousness. They reflect the unawakened states of consciousness so many of you will find it necessary to step out of. Sometimes, as I said, they can. May in certain cases, they can be changed from within. If there are enough people within who want. Want to change it. But many structures are too rigid for change. So it is up to you to create new structures that reflect and come together, perhaps with others who are also awakening, so that the new structures will reflect your state of consciousness. So this is what the world needs. The world cannot continue to function within the old structures that are a product of unenlightened states of consciousness. The economy, the political system, even here in the states, it seems to compare to some other places, functions quite well. But it's dysfunctional too. The economic structures, certainly you can see how dysfunctional they are. The educational system, how children are brought up, all those things. They require new structures to reflect the arising consciousness. So that's your job, to create those. And here we come to that part of manifestation which the universe also wants. It does not. It wants you. Yes, of course. It wants you to go within, realize who you are in your essence. And then from there, it also wants you to create. It wants you to manifest it. You will use you. It will work through you to manifest new forms. Because the old forms don't work anymore. And it's a wonderful thing to do that. And you will see how empowered you suddenly become as you go about creating new forms, how powerful your abilities to manifest will be if they are in alignment with what the universe wants, with what the one consciousness wants. They are not little egos Wanting to create something, you are in alignment with what the universe needs right now. The awakening consciousness wants. If you then start manifesting from that deeper level within yourself, you will be amazed how empowered you can be in your manifestation. Sometimes there is a time gap, so sometimes manifestation happens very quickly. Sometimes you need to, as you are inspired, so to speak, a blueprint of what is possible, of what you, or not so much you, of what consciousness wants you to create may arise in your mind. And this mental blueprint of what you want to create, this may be there for a while. It might attract others with similar mental blueprint. And then at some point, the manifestation begins. Some action may be necessary. But again, the action that you take will be inspired by the consciousness and it will not be stressful. This is a new way of creating. If stress comes in, you are falling back into the old consciousness. This is a joyful way of creating new forms and new structures in this world. The old way is to create while you're creating. You're stressed and angry and you're fighting others. You will, of course, you will encounter obstacles to that which you want to create, because the old structures, they don't want to. They will regard you as an enemy in some cases, and that's fine. You have no enemies. Let them regard you as an enemy. But to you, you don't attack another important thing. You don't attack the old structures and say how dreadfully wrong they are. Focus on the new rather than. And especially don't attack the people who are still identified with the old structures and work within the old structures. They are just slow, a little slower in awakening. So the important.
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