Eckhart Tolle teaches that stepping out of thought is a skill you can develop by focusing on your breath. This creates a stillness called "aware presence," where you access "true gnosis" – a direct knowing of reality that goes beyond concepts and intellectual understanding.
you could call it a skill to learn to step out of the stream of thinking, perhaps initially by being aware of your breathing. That stills the mind, shh, and then there's a stillness that remains. That stillness is aware presence. And there you enter the field of true gnosis, G-N-O-S-I-S, the deeper knowing of your essential reality. And that is a non-conceptual knowing. That's the only knowing that you can use, can be helpful in trying to not understand God, because that's not possible, but to get a sense, a kind of realization of what that word actually means.
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