A short Eckhart Tolle spoken segment arguing that challenges are an inevitable and necessary part of life. He uses the metaphor of waves at the seashore to explain how difficulties recur; if one fails to accept that challenge is necessary, resentment and a sense that something is wrong arise. Tolle further asserts that increasing consciousness and becoming less reactive lets life work out more harmoniously over time.
Challenges, they continue to come. Like kind of when you're standing at the seashore, the waves are coming in. So one wave comes in, and then for a while, if the sea is relatively calm, there's nothing. Ah, all is fine, all is good. My life is okay. And then you see, oh, there's another thing coming. Oh, no, not another one. If you don't realize that there is a necessity for all life forms to be challenged one way or another, then you think there's something wrong with your life and resentment arises. Things shouldn't be going wrong in my life. Things should all work out perfectly well. It is true. As you become more conscious, things do work out in your daily life more harmoniously. Gradually, as you become less reactive.
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