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Why Discomfort Is the Engine of All Evolution

By Eckhart Tolle · Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle frames discomfort and challenge as the universal driving force of evolution — the mechanism by which every life form, on this planet and elsewhere, becomes more complex and more conscious.

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Every life form needs to experience since being taken out of their comfort zone in order to to evolve and to and to to to manifest whatever powers they have. Every life form is continuously challenged. And only that is the driving force behind the evolution of all life forms, and the awakening of consciousness, because gradually life forms on the planet this planet and anywhere in the universe uh gradually is becom- becoming more and more complex.

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