They are the same in the abstract, but for them to be experienced as the same, that is awareness, and it is not something one part can will against the whole.
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It reminds me of the mechanism that leads to insight. Spontaneous flashes of insight are precipitated by long periods of intense thought and incubation. Insight might appear as an independent event but it is not.
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Eckhart Tolle was depressed for much of his life until age 29. Tolle's spontaneous awakening occurred at a critical point when suffering was "almost unbearable." Such drastic, sudden transformations are rare and usually occur when the suffering reaches critical levels.
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