Eckhart Tolle describes how awakening connects you to a still, unconditioned intelligence beyond ego. When fully present, you can sense this same spacious awareness in another person, creating a connection that goes deeper than personality.
Once you are awakening, awakened, awakening, you are connected with an intelligence that is in the unconditioned consciousness that resides in the stillness, preconceptual intelligence, and you're connected with that, and that increasingly can create through you. It uses your mind. It's no longer the ego that says, oh, I need to attain this or that. There's something deeper and it uses your mind. And it could just sometimes it's a simple thing like interacting with another human being. While you listen and listen to what the other person says and you look at him or her, you can sense yourself as this stillness, spaciousness, and you're looking at another human being and there is a connection, a deeper connection. You can sense the beingness of the other. because you can sense your own beingness. And so you, you connect with the other beyond the personality, which may be nice or not nice. And that connection is the recognition of the other as essentially the same as you, because you, you in essence are consciousness, and the other in essence is consciousness.
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