Eckhart Tolle teaches that how you do something matters more than what you do. The quality of awareness you bring to each action, not the action itself, transforms your life and the world around you.
What you do is secondary, but how you do what you do is primary. But there's an awareness in the background. There's an awareness while life unfolds, so you don't lose yourself in the unfolding life, the succession of events and people and experiences. You're— there's always— there's a presence behind it, and that's lucid living. And you are, you are not looking for yourself in any event or experience anymore. You're able to allow this world to be and contribute in a benevolent way, contribute a different energy to this world, which is what the world needs. And then gradually the world reflects this changed consciousness in you. And that is the arising of a new world. It can only truly arise from a change in human consciousness. That's why— that's the only way. Fundamentally, the change in consciousness is what is needed to manifest a more conscious world. And you are part of that, and your function is to embody this changed consciousness in your daily life. So whatever you do in your daily life, I sometimes say
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