A short Eckhart Tolle teaching emphasizing that befriending the present moment is a powerful spiritual practice and that gratitude (including appreciation for challenges) is inseparable from present-moment awareness.
If you become friendly with the present moment, that itself is a very powerful spiritual practice. No matter what form it takes. There's something that's connected with that that is usually called a sense of gratitude. It's part of being friendly with the present moment. And if you get. If you're very advanced spiritually, you're even grateful when something, a challenge arises. You're not just grateful for the good things in the so good things in the present moment. But an appreciation is a very powerful spiritual practice because it's inseparable from present moment awareness.
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