New Earth

A könyv 3 mondatban: Eckhart explains how attachment to the ego causes dysfunctions that lead to anger, envy and unhappiness, and shows readers how to wake up to another level of consciousness and embark on the path to a truly satisfying life. Eckhart suggests throughout that the dysfunctions of our world are rooted in our individual states of consciousness. In other words, our social and environmental problems are largely due to the fact that most of us spend most of our time unconsciously. He talks about the importance of sometimes detaching ourselves from the ego, from the self-image we create through the stories we tell ourselves and others, and ultimately from the character we are creating in our lives. Kedvenc idézetek: “- "Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them"” “- "You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge."” “- "The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking."”

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Összefoglaló + jegyzetek: Eckhart suggests throughout that the dysfunctions of our world are rooted in our individual states of consciousness. In other words, our social and environmental problems are largely due to the fact that most of us spend most of our time unconsciously. He talks about the importance of sometimes detaching ourselves from the ego, from the self-image we create through the stories we tell ourselves and others, and ultimately from the character we are creating in our lives. When you pretend that you are right and others are wrong, it is a basic egoic mind pattern, a form of unconscious action. Often we view events with the attitude that our opinion is right and consequently others are wrong. However, this is like saying that they are better drivers than average. The trouble is that if you ask almost anyone, that is their answer, and if everyone is driving above average, where is the average? We can't always be right. It takes great humility to notice and respect other people's points of view. Paradoxically, what makes consumer society work is not that you get to know yourself through objects, you get to know yourself, but precisely that ego gratification is very short-lived, so you will always want more of everything to get the same feeling of satisfaction you used to get for less. Like an addict whose tolerance is growing. If you start to monitor the social and environmental importance of the products you tend to consume, you will become more aware of this and you will consume less and less of them. Sin is a word that has been misunderstood and misinterpreted many times. Literally translated from the ancient Greeks, to commit sin is to miss the target, like an archer who misses the target, so to commit sin in this interpretation is to miss the purpose of human existence. It means to live helplessly, blindly, and as a result we suffer and cause suffering to others. Obviously, at any age, we cannot be expected to discover the meaning of our life and from then on sacrifice everything to it. However, it is our duty to seek it, to do our utmost to make the world a better place by finding what we can do to reduce the suffering of others. Especially once we have found it. In this case, there is no excuse, we must pursue it at all costs, because without it, we will be the cause of other people's suffering, and this is especially true for us when we become consumers. We are not only responsible for ourselves! A significant proportion of the Earth's population will soon realise, if they have not already done so, that humanity is facing a crucial turning point: evolve or die. This is the order of life, and it has happened to other species, and even to man. One of the paradigms of evolutionary psychology is that all psychological theories imply the existence of evolutionarily evolved internal mechanisms. Evolution by natural selection is the only known process capable of generating complex physiological and psychological mechanisms. Only those mechanisms that play a role in individual survival or reproduction survive. The number of evolutionarily evolved mechanisms is very large, and their nature is complex and domain-specific. Many adaptive problems in humans arise from the social environment. Finally, basic psychological mechanisms are species-specific. The central idea is therefore that psychological mechanisms, like biological ones, have evolved over millions of years of natural selection, have proven useful for survival and reproduction, and have a genetic basis. The evolution that the writer is talking about needs to reshape some aspect of our minds about how we relate to socially and environmentally important issues, as science and technology alone will not solve this issue.