A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now. ‘My No.1 guru will always be Eckhart Tolle’ Chris Evans

A very common role is the one of victim, and the form of attention it seeks is sympathy or pity or others’ interest in my problems,

It is not your physical form but the life that animates the physical form.

People believe themselves to be dependent on what happens for their happiness, that is to say, dependent on form.

You will find that by feeling the subtle flow of air in and out of the body as well as the rise and fall of your chest and abdomen, you are also becoming aware of the inner body.

While it provides some relief from your mind, you again pay a high price: loss of consciousness.

When you play roles, you are unconscious. When you catch yourself playing a role, that recognition creates a space between you and the role. It is the beginning of freedom from the role. When you are completely identified with a role, you confuse a pattern of behavior with who you are, and you take yourself very seriously.

Some religious institutions will be open to the new consciousness; others will harden their doctrinal positions and become part of all those other man-made structures through which the collective ego will defend itself and “fight back.”

When you recognize the unconsciousness in you, that which makes the recognition possible is the arising consciousness, is awakening.

At about the same time, another of humanity’s early awakened teachers emerged in China. His name was Lao Tzu. He left a record of his teaching in the form of one of the most profound spiritual books ever written, the Tao Te Ching.