A speaker reflects on why we misunderstand life's challenges and how that misunderstanding breeds unhappiness and resentment. He argues challenges are essential for consciousness to evolve and awaken.
A speaker reflects on why we misunderstand life's challenges and how that misunderstanding breeds unhappiness and resentment. He argues challenges are essential for consciousness to evolve and awaken.
So it seems to me there is a general pattern at work that it is inherent in the nature of physical existence of life forms that challenges are an essential ingredient of their lifespan here and part of the way through which they evolve. When they say they evolve really means it's the one consciousness evolves awakens into this dimension through the different life forms in different ways and it awakens only because we are being challenged. And that is quite a relief to realize to be challenged doesn't mean there's something wrong. There's something wrong with my life that shouldn't be. If you believe or act as if this shouldn't be happening then you get really unhappy. Then the challenges become transformed into unhappiness inside you. If it's not unhappiness, it's resentment. If it's not resentment, it's anger, it's self pity, it's complaining, it's despondency for the simple reason that you are misunderstanding the very purpose of life and expecting something that your mind has come up with it should be different.
Why alcohol feels like relief, and what it is really giving you | Eckhart Tolle
