Short excerpt of an Eckhart Tolle talk arguing that facing challenges is necessary for awakening consciousness. He explains that difficulty prompts an influx of energy that strengthens life on physical and spiritual levels—without need or challenge, growth and awakening do not occur.
All life forms awaken through facing challenges. Without challenge, no consciousness can awaken. But challenges are not only on the spiritual level, which is a higher dimensional frequency. Even on a purely physical level, every living entity is challenged the moment they are born. If you want to become stronger, you have to make life difficult for your body, otherwise you won't get stronger. Then the body, they sends out a call for an increase in energy and then after a while you get stronger. It's not pleasant at first. Why are you making your life difficult for your body? Because only when there's a need, the challenge is there. Then the influx of added energy comes. And that's just on a purely physical level. It works on all levels.
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