Eckhart Tolle

Rather than thinking that something else is more important than my state of consciousness.

So in any situation, you're faced with any situation,

What is the state of consciousness with which you face the situation?

Are you in a state of resistance or negativity towards the situation?

Because in any endeavor that you undertake,

inevitably obstacles will arise in anything.

You want to create something new.

Obstacles come in many forms, sometimes in the form of human beings who don't like you to do what you're doing, or it can come in the form of other structures that are in society, the rigid structures.

So you get all kinds of bureaucratic obstacles or whatever the obstacles are.

So how do you face an obstacle?

What is your state of consciousness when an obstacle arises?

Do you immediately become angry?

Do you become despondent?

Or do you start complaining in your mind?

people and talking about how awful this situation is and complaining?

Or are you able to just immediately say, this is what is?

So you face the obstacle, not in a state of resistance, come from a state of power.

This is what is.

And then when you are in that state of presence, very often

a right action arises spontaneously.