Eckhart Tolle argues that success, money, health, and family don't protect you from life's challenges. Even positive thinking improves things but doesn't eliminate opposites: gain something, lose something else. Lucid living means heightened awareness, not freedom from struggle.
Let's say you have achieved great professional success. Your income is great. You have a wonderful place to live. Your family is doing well. Your health is just great, and your body looks fantastic. Is that possible? So if that's the case with you, just wait a little, and and something will pop up out of nowhere and challenge you and say, "Oh my God!" And especially you just solve something here and then something pops up there. It's a— even if you practice positive thinking, which is a great thing to do, it will improve your life considerably, but it does not mean you will not be challenged by life again. Every situation contains opposites. You gain something here, but you lose something there. And you will experience being challenged by life, and you can't get away from it. That's the weird thing. So the being challenged does not stop even when you begin lucid living.
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