Eckhart Tolle - Finding Your Life's Purpose

A video excerpt from the Eckhart Tolle’s video and audio program, "Finding Your Life’s Purpose."
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About Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual teacher and author Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. At the age of twenty-nine, a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life. The next few years were devoted to understanding, integrating, and deepening that transformation, which marked the beginning of an intense inward journey. Eckhart’s profound yet simple teachings have already helped countless people throughout the world find inner peace and greater fulfillment in their lives. At the core of the teachings lies the transformation of consciousness, a spiritual awakening that he sees as the next step in human evolution. An essential aspect of this awakening includes transcending our ego-based state of consciousness. This is a prerequisite not only for personal happiness but also for the ending of violent conflict endemic on our planet.
Eckhart Tolle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Power of Now (translated into 33 languages) and the highly acclaimed follow-up A New Earth, which are widely regarded as two of the most influential spiritual books of our time.
About Finding Your Life’s Purpose
If you’ve been searching for your true purpose in life, Eckhart Tolle has some straightforward advice: stop struggling. For the primary purpose of every human being is simply to be: fully engaged in this moment, and aligned with the natural flow of reality itself. On Finding Your Life’s Purpose, the bestselling author of A New Earth invites you to discover the twofold intention of our human incarnation: to free yourself from the prison of “thought-based reality,” and to express in your own way the grand vision that universal consciousness has for your life. “You are the consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that-that’s what life wants with you,” teaches Eckhart Tolle. With this liberating DVD session of insights and “pointers,” you will enter this stream of luminosity, through Finding Your Life’s Purpose.
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[@paulg.2141]

Being is your purpose. The rest unfolds through the awakening of Intelligence.

[@francoisgouws7288]

Great comment!

[@Olivia-bs5wj]

I’m in bed all day hot achieving anything, is that enough?

[@ferdinandalexander8053]

The most meaningful thing in life is whatever you're doing right now!

[@SoundstrueManyVoices]

Absolutely!

[@dami4862]

And if you are doing nothing?

[@madhavparikh6747]

@@dami4862 That's the highest thing one can 'do'. :)

[@maryburke7365]

Life purpose..he is saying live "in the now" forget the past, don't think of the future unless necessary and concentrate on "the now" which works out fabulously once you understand it.

[@carmenrincones3379]

Nice Video! Excuse me for butting in, I am interested in your opinion. Have you tried - Chiveard Discovering Potential Framework (probably on Google)? It is an awesome one of a kind guide for finding your true calling and achieving success without the hard work. Ive heard some incredible things about it and my close friend Aubrey finally got astronomical results with it.

[@Saveg36]

@@carmenrincones3379 shut up bruh

[@miladbaymani798]

But what to do in the now?

[@p5rsona]

I have real difficulty in seeing what my life purpose is, meaning having a career and so on. I feel the only important thing is awakening. but because of that it is really hard to keep motivated in everyday life, like school or work.

[@johnpasquina8818]

Wow. You are speaking my language!

[@p5rsona]

I would like to provide an update to my post. I was going through a lot of collapses in my life then and my mind was left in a very insecure position. Coupled with depression it was seeking for relief of suffering. So a lot of self-reflection went on for months and the need to know where to go in life has faded. I still go to school and still have projects but I know now things can come and go and there is no real control. I notice now that its winter my mood isnt like before, but thats just something that comes and goes. But there is not trying to escape this mood change like before. I heard Rupert Spira say that we are like a movie screen which has no choice on whats projected on it. That made such an impact for me. There is such a relief in knowing that. Of course you do what you can but realize that whatever the outcome, its the best thing that could happen now. Also I noticed exercising regularly helps tremendously in being in a good mood besides the obvious health benefits couples with good diet and supplements (fish oil and vitamin D :D )

[@johnpasquina8818]

Hey there. Really well said. I love that Rupert Spira quote. Our minds are gonna do what they are gonna do. It is up to us whether we decide to react or not. Similar realizations coming to me as of late. Circumstance of our minds and situations are, ultimately, quite separate from our sense of well being. Have u read The Depression Cure by Stephen S. Ilardi? Really had a profound affect and in line with a lot of what u have to say. Great to see some honesty. Thanks for that.

[@p5rsona]

Hey thanks for your reply. Yes situations come and go but there seems to be this elusive thing, or rather no thing, that remains though everything. No I haven't read it but I will, thanks for suggesting it. I think honesty with ourselves is probably the most important thing we need in order to to see through all the smoke of our mind and evolve. Cheers to you mate :)

[@p5rsona]

***** Thank you I will check it out, but Im starting to see the purpose will come by following your excitment :)

[@sagek7949]

I love how he chuckles :P

[@abcd-wg2iq]

If only he flipped the head backward a bit, would have been even funnier

[@mn9120]

Such a perfect smile. That giggling.

[@lisaplummer8144]

I'm not sure that we have an actual purpose but if we get rid of thoughts that are attached to past and future, whatever purpose we might have can be authentic and organic. When we shed the thought of past and/or future, we can be swept up in the ebb and flow of life and answer whatever purpose may be present.

[@bumblebee9912]

or at least be in a state called "peace".

[@eduardamarques5614]

The mental noise is exhausting. She did this to me, he did this to me, drama, pain... The problem is that the sum of all life experiences become such a burden. The ego accumulates them and they take a chip away, every time, from our essence. For me, that result detours us from our purpose in this life time.

[@ElisPalmer]

What an amazing being, so grateful for him and his teachings~✨🙏🏼✨💙✨

[@RhondaJay2001]

“These are the voyages of OUR CONSCIOUSNESS, its continuing mission exploring empty SPACE... THE FINAL FRONTIER.”

[@thischannelisretired9196]

Thank you for thoroughly blowing my mind.

[@ferdinandalexander8053]

Let's start right at the top and say presence is never absent.

[@lifesmeaningistobehappy7201]

Wish you all a joyful presence

[@wendyheldt5678]

wow!! incredibly insightful!

[@Dgipss3]

nothing to do with life purpose but still a great message

[@ideasandtrucking]

Dgipss3 thats often how they go haha

[@paulg.2141]

The purpose of Life(who is life) is to become present. A candle hidden under a table brings no light to the room. Place it on the table and it illuminates all. Just "be" is your purpose. Trust.

[@erievhs]

@@paulg.2141 Well it'd probably set the table on fire so...

[@kamilo4989]

You completely missed the point of the title and the video. There is no purpose other than to experience presence as alive right now. Once you are in the now. Just THIS. Everything else subsides. (...and anything that wants to manifest out of this field of presence will do so, with or without your help. Your task is just to let go of everything.)

[@naxhiedoda-fk9qr]

Thanks a lot for sharing 😍

[@rogerlin9602]

0:54 Future is a thought in your head. Beyond that, there is no future. The same applies to the past, only in your head. No one has discovered the future. All forms only appear now in spacetime. Thanks Eckhart. 31 December 2023.💖💖💖💖🌻🌻🌻🌻🌹🌹🌹

[@lifesmeaningistobehappy7201]

Thank you so much, really helpful

[@billyb4790]

I struggle with this question all the time. Recently I've been letting go of the idea and it's been a great sense of relief. Ironically I feel like any purpose comes much more naturally when I do just that. The key seems to be the understanding that there is no "me". That's all a mind made conception. So I struggle with this concept and add to the suffering when I demand I know my life's purpose (lest I be a failure).

[@sheepshearer2705]

Same here. It's certainly a work in progress isn't it.🙏🙏❤️

[@andrajackson2291]

He killed it

[@leahmay1506]

Very wise

[@mehrayine]

WooooW!

[@toodayy38]

"The only place where things can happen..., now."

[@youarelife3437]

He is not wrong about the time travel. In spiritual books, and in ufo encounters both I have read the extra terrestrials and the spiritual beings sayin that time travel happens when you zap out of the 3D linear time and jump into the 'Now'. Inside this 'now' all things are compressed into one thing...so now you may choose to enter inside it and pick a chapter in history if you like. Billy Meyer's encounter with the Pleadians mentioned this. And someone recently had an Ayahuasca trip also mentioned how the 5D spirits were asking them[and this is about space not time but extremely similar] "Why do you travel inside an airplane from point A to point B, when you are the point A the point B and everything in the middle?".

[@mariamahmedzein7806]

I just said it, God doen't need to be fed, but people do, especially in a good time.

[@propagandauniversity7804]

The lady that asked the questions looks like the same lady I have seen couple of his other videos.

[@franci-uz]

Thinking about future is important... what about retirement or making plans about caring for your parents in future?

[@uk2727]

Time stays, we go.

[@zerosandones701]

Beautiful

[@NBAXXX]

Now, now, now, and now. 'Now' can't be grasped.

[@billyb4790]

this is why time machines can't exist. If they existed, we'd have already met someone from the future who would show us the machine :)

[@peterbarker8249]

.. another thought in formation .(for thy information)

[@shiningsoul8990]

Dear All, created my first Video A new earth

[@Herehear49]

When is now???

[@abcd-wg2iq]

Are there different "now's", and if there is only one "now", can you go to different parts of it? Does the now hold in itself all the past and all the future :)

[@horsensscope]

The future does exist most definitely. How does one explain clear visions of events in the future which actually transpire as seen? Hawkins, among other spiritual folks will always say it is impossible to see the future. The now covers all, including Past Present and Future. This can easily be verified through deep meditation.

[@markbrad123]

Sometimes it maybe useful to reference past/future if relevant but don't get stuck its all happening now. This is not an argument just an addition. If anyone thought he meant absolutely never reference the past/future he did not say that..

[@krystlechampagne]

LOL lol I LOVE HIM i am so into him xx

[@alyssahoward30]

What’s the #1 challenge you have right now relating to finding your life purpose? I need to know if I’m not the only one struggling with this question...

[@worldtraveller83]

It's keeping in mind what I had earlier found out relating to the purpose of life.

[@sheepshearer2705]

Exactly that..... Trying to find my purpose.. 🙏

[@user-yn2ct2ie9m]

you can't be this passive in life...

[@zazenh]

@idrisnate and thewisechinaman...when u rhink of the past. you're thinking of it NOW. he's not saying that past events didn't happen, he's saying how you react to them are totally NOW not the way yoi dealt with them in the past. also you cannot "understand or intellectualize" what he's saying, you have to experience..and we all have ...probably for a few seconds or minutes, but we all have. we are all life. a manifestation of the one life. i'm not intending to sound too metaphysical, but it's the best way i can try to explain it.

[@ema8909]

So what is my life's purpose?

[@JuuzyFruit]

@Horsenscope... In order to see "visions" of the future, when must the visions come to you? Well, they come to you the moment you have them of course, the "now". And if what you saw in the vision actually happens, when does it happen? It doesnt happen when you had the vision of the future, because that is just a thought. It would happen when it happens. Still, the now you see? But good point it nade me actualy think for a second c:

[@mingwei9594]

Reality is now

[@rossd9797]

What has that got to do with life purpose?

[@Soulfullife05]

what does this have to do with life purpose!!?

[@klemens33331]

"Philosophical klugschmeisser entertainment" that is, but it didn't explain a thing about our "Life's purpose"! Of course there's a future for all mentally and physically healthy person, for our future quality of life depends on our logically correct personal development and actions. That's what insight & wisdom is all about! :)

[@Herehear49]

How now, brown cow? Peace, my brother!

[@martinnhantran]

Now

[@missionmagic9769]

Great video! I am a life purpose agent and I've been working on people who are looking for their purposes in life. One goal is to be motivated to find your true purpose.

[@MUSICOBLISS]

The only thing that is

[@AaronDavisonmusic]

Very moving.... Eckhart is definitely tapped into something powerful. When The Power of Now came out it had a profound impact on my life. I wrote a song about that book called "All Things Subside"... all about living in the moment. Check it out on my channel.

[@paulg.2141]

If there was a future. Then that future to be assured would have to make sure certain events happened. That would mean no Human has a choice. He/she would be confined to the future event that was already a certainty. Hahah, but that scenario could never happen. You do have a choice. Make it.

[@cameltryde]

what was there before Creations Creator even made such as you... first steps, small ones they be, carrying kindness of Holiness then the real future of Life on this, Creations Created Earth, for Human Beings to rise above to higher levels of mind, body, action, before it is too late....KB

[@klemens33331]

Amen... :)

[@nikm1983]

How Soon Is Now?

[@ThePainkiller1982]

2X

[@johnlim71]

OldChinaman, it's not very wise to let what you already know get in the way of the truth. Past and future are only mental constructs i.e. concepts. As such, any negative thoughts about are both a waste of time and an unnecessary source of suffering. Instead of worrying about the past and future, you could be spending your time more wisely thinking about how to deal with the situation NOW...what you do now has a direct impact on what happens in the next moment (the "future")

[@paradigmwolf4694]

He looks like that "stoner" meme guy xD

[@deloriswilliams1282]

Saying THE REVEREND OF SALVATION DOESN’T MATTER IS NOTHING BUT BLASTING BLESOMPHEY BEYOND TODAY THEREFORE IS NO FORGIVNESS forever for your names are obsolete and are purged 31:Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

[@willzer808]

i don't know, he's just taking ages to say that now is now. Why not just say now is now and leave it at that

[@peterbarker8249]

..sun???? ..!,🤜🤛👉👍 ..day...?

[@peterbarker8249]

.. there is no you..

[@peterbarker8249]

🤜🤛👉👉😂😂 ..there's snow..🌨️⛄⛄❄️⛄ .U.

[@a.rasheed4073]

Absolutely no connection of the purpose of life

[@doctemp2518]

Such a flawed "theory" for everyday common man life. Let's take an example. A person has betrayed you in the past and you invove with the person now without taking past exp and applying how your future is gonna be with that person. Nonsensical

[@robynhope219]

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