13 Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress/ is full and the vats overflow-so great is their wickedness!" 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LorD is near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and moon will be darkened, and the stars no longer shine. 16 The LorD will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem:n STY the earth and the sky will tremble. But the Lord will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel. Blessings for God's People I 17 "Then you will know that I, the LorD your God, dwell in Zion, my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy; never again will foreigners invade her. 18 "In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk; all the ravines of Judah will run with water,o A fountain will flow out of the Lord's house and will water the valley of acacias.a 19 But Egypt will be desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood. 20 Judah will be inhabited forever ass.10 and Jerusalem through all generations. 21 Their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, Iwill pardon." •18 Or Valley of Shittim The Lord dwells in Zion!

An ego that wants something from another- and what ego doesn't--will usually play some kind of role to get its "needs" met, be they material gain, a sense of power, supe-riority, or specialness, or some kind of gratification, be it physical or psychological. Usually people are completely unaware of the roles they play. They are those roles. Some roles are subtle; others are blatantly obvious, except to the person playing it. Some roles are designed simply to get attention from others. The ego thrives on others' attention, which is after all a form of psychic energy. The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside. It is not the formless attention which is Presence that the ego seeks, but attention in some form, such as

Most people are so completely identified with the voice in the head- the incessant stream of involuntary and compulsive thinking and the emotions that accompany it that we may describe them as being possessed by their mind. As long as you are completely unaware of this, you take the thinker to be who you are. This is the egoic mind. We call it egoic because there is a sense of self, of I (ego), in every thought--every memory, every interpretation, opinion, viewpoint, reaction, emotion. This is unconsciousness, spiritually speaking. Your thinking, the content of your mind, is of course conditioned by the past: your upbring-ing, culture, family background, and so on. The central core of all vour activitv consists of certain repetitive

A NEW EARTH Rostage h aa imer contraction, a hardening of the sher o the ga lion az closed. Whatever action you take in a ease of inset restance (which we could also call negative in) wail create more outer resistance, and the universe wit best be aa your side, life will not be helpful. If the shutten at dosed the sunlight cannot come in. When you yield ineraly, when you surrender, a new dimension of com-scionses opens up. If action is possible or necessary, your ation wil be in alignment with the whole and supported be creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become one with Groumstances and people then become helpful, coopera-die. Coincidences happen. If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that come with surrender. You rest in God.

Chapter two continues.

Also I want to take the opportunity to thank the author of this book for all his hard work writing this book. Happy new year to everyone and thank you to all of you who supported me. I want you to know from the bottom of my heart I love you!

Let me take the time to credit “Eckhart Tolle for writing this wonderful Awakening book”. The inspiration for the title of this book came from a Bible prophecy that seems more applicable now than at any other time in human history. It occurs in both the Old and the New Testament and speaks of the collapse of the existing world order and the arising of "a new heaven and a new earth?"1 We need to understand here that heaven is not a location but refers to the inner realm of consciousness. This is the esoteric meaning of the word, and this is also its meaning in the teachings of Jesus. Earth, on the other hand, is the outer manifestation in form, which is always a reflec-ton of the inner. Collective human consciousness and life on our planet are intrinsically connected. "A new heaven" is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness, and " new earth" is its reflection in the physical realm. Since human life and human consciousness are intrinsically one with the life of the planet, as the old consciousness dissolves, there are hound to be synchronistic geographic and climatic natural upheavals in many parts of the planet.

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