Eckhart Tolle on the Significance of Being Present in the Now

Eckhart Tolle emphasizes the crucial role of presence and being in the now for overcoming dysfunction in human consciousness. He explains that the main purpose of human life is to consciously inhabit the present moment, a process synonymous with the awakening of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle describes this awakening as a timeless state that develops gradually over time, with periods of presence followed by moments of losing it, ultimately extending the duration of presence.
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About Eckhart:
Eckhart Tolle is widely recognized as one of the most inspiring and visionary spiritual teachers in the world today. With his international bestsellers, The Power of Now and A New Earth-translated into more than 50 languages-he has introduced millions to the joy and freedom of living life in the present moment. The New York Times has described him as “the most popular spiritual author in the United States,” and in 2011, Watkins Review (now Watkins Mind Body Spirit) named him “the most spiritually influential person in the world.”
Eckhart’s profound yet simple teachings have helped countless people around the globe experience a state of vibrantly alive inner peace in their daily lives. His teachings focus on the significance and power of Presence, the awakened state of consciousness, which transcends ego and discursive thinking. Eckhart sees this awakening as the essential next step in human evolution.

[@gember1382]

I'm now starting to know how to stay in the now. I always felt frustrated not knowing why it was so hard for me. Now I understand that to be in the now, you have to accept the not-knowing of the future. And with an anxiety disorder and complex trauma that is pretty hard because you want to feel control over the future. So to all who listen to this and think, "I want to, but it doesn't work for me," I just want to say: please be gentle with yourself. Know that it is ok that it's hard to be in the now. There is a reason that your system doesn't trust it YET. It takes time (for me decades), but you will get there. If you just feel compassion for yourself ❤.

[@marielinejuillard9495]

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[@annemurphy8074]

So well put, thank you. I can so relate.♥

[@TheFallonDynasty]

It is extremely difficult. I only just started about a week ago after reading The Power of Now. I too suffer from anxiety and past trauma.

[@Ludifant]

It doesn't even have to be your personal trauma. We live in a time of mistrust and eroding of social capital. I call it time traveling. Not thinking beyond the next breath. Traveling through time in the warp bubble of the now. Translight!

[@SandraJane-bd8im]

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[@mirjama1813]

When I was a child (about 8,9 years) I remember I used to play a game, to be very alert in the now. I used to say out loud 'now' and then feel how it felt.

[@shellpen7326]

I recall a while back of a time when I was little like 5 or 6, and just sitting on my swing in my backyard, only slightly swinging, but staring at the clouds in the sky. I swear that moment I was in the now with no thoughts.

[@ericapridoehl2821]

I understand this comment. Thank you for putting this comment into words.

[@johngreen4683]

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift, which is why it's called the present 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@njm8443]

is a pleasant present to be present in your presence 😁

[@GuidanceWithLove]

This is a beautiful quote from Master Oogway

[@user-st7wb3yf3d]

Did your little kid make that up?

[@johngreen4683]

@@user-st7wb3yf3d no, but it did come from a children's movie Kung Fu Panda, does that make it any less in your eyes? 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@user-st7wb3yf3d]

@@johngreen4683 Delusion is delusion.

[@veraintuizione6497]

That's it. 🙏 EVERYTHING happens NOW everything IS here. I have just returned home. The days are very long and beautiful, it's almost summer. Around eight in the evening you can still see the proud and radiant pink and yellow light of the sun, elegantly making its way between the old houses of the city center and the small church from many centuries ago. Which seemed to me here now, between the smell of the lime trees and the laughter of the people, the shouts at the top of their lungs and the ringtone of the telephone that continues to buzz in my bag. A girl with the joyful smile of my sister crosses the street. My sister IS here too NOW, she has always been HERE, even now that she is no longer here. An old gentleman and his little dog both looking at me with watery eyes. They both smile at me. Universal Consciousness ❤is the greatest of painters. We are all his brushstrokes, we are all its thousand colours and I'm sure death doesn't exist.❤ So grateful 💓🙏✨✨✨🌺

[@stephenflood3463]

The most important thing that makes up our lives on Earth is our spiritual growth because all of the material stuff we might accumulate in life does not serve the universal awakening process and we can't take them with us either. But it's our accumulated wisdom and spiritual essences from living in the now is what we do take with us and that is how we all individually contribute to the awakening evolutionary flow of the universe also. Thanks so much Eckhart.

[@cboh9530]

Well said,couldn't agree with you more 🙏🏽

[@NancyBeaulieu]

❤ Great reminder. I’m feeling overwhelmed by all the busyness lately and I’m getting wrapped up in that feeling. What I need to do is let go of all the thoughts and just be.

[@MrsSantaM]

It was 2008. I was at Barnes and Noble and on the other side of the shelf I could see a glow. I walked around and saw The Power of Now glowing. I’d never heard of it but knew I needed the glowing book. It changed my life and I always come back to it. I never told anyone about the glow because it doesn’t sound real.

[@hawkeye9382]

It was calling you!

[@9me9a92]

I do believe you. BCS power of now entered my life in the weirdest most impossible way

[@annemurphy8074]

I believe you. I had a book fall off the shelf at my feet at Chapters. There was a picture on the front of the book, it had landed face up, of a shattered window and the title was "Scared Selfless". I thought, "that's me" and then picked up the book and put it back on the shelf. I turned to walk away and I heard voices in my head as clear as day begin arguing so loudly "WE NEED THAT BOOK! GO BACK AND GET IT"!! I was so freaked out but went back and bought the book, got to my car and threw it on the seat and said to the voices "There! I bought it! Now go away and leave me alone"! I was so freaked out. Turns out I've had D.I.D my whole life and this was my alters talking and the book was about a woman with D.I.D. We began our real healing journey after this and finally got the correct diagnosis and a good therapist that knows how to work with D.I.D.

[@rogerlin9602]

0:57 The compulsion to get away from the now is the root of human dysfunction. Main purpose for humans is to inhabit the now consciously. That is also awakening of consciousness, being present. You are here because something within you is awakening to this dimension of consciousness. Awakening is the only thing of absolute importance in incarnation. You represent awakening consciousness, the evolution of consciousness on this planet through you. 4:21 You are inseparable from the awakening universe. You look like a person, but you are the awakening universe disguised as a person. Do you embody the awakening consciousness? This is absolute importance. Thanks Eckhart. 14 June 2024. 🌊🤲🍇🤣🐣💗🍀😇🐿🤣🌊🍇

[@zovalentine7305]

The gift of the present 🎁 Yesterday is gone✊ The future is not here yet✊

[@an.d.m.a]

The present 🎁

[@9me9a92]

«But it's still the now it seems. Strange. Can't get away from it. »

[@MindMasterDan]

I love Eckhart Tolle!!!!!!

[@varunreddy4390]

Ekchart is the greatest teacher, his teachings help enormously to overcome dopamine craving

[@zovalentine7305]

THE POWER OF NOW ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😇

[@gwenwade6059]

Thank you Eckhart.❤

[@ChildofGod98765]

Amen. Thank you. Please continue to pray for me and my sons. Sending love ❤️

[@Zahra33663]

Je ne comprends pas bien l'anglais mais j'aime quant même écouter Eckhart avec sa propre voix, et pas celle d'un traducteur.

[@tactac1572]

Je comprends bien l'anglais mais après 3 ans à écouter Eckhart tolle, j'écoute de manière détachée, sans réfléchir à ce qu'il dit, j'attends de ressentir quelque chose qui fais echo en moi ou me marque. Et cette manière de faire ma plus apporté que le reste. D'ailleurs il le dit, les mots ne sont que des pointeurs.

[@juliavanrun-kilic1744]

Sous sous-titres/Traduction automatique, vous trouvez le français. Certes pas parfait, mais ça peut être un aide…

[@user-dt1vz4ce2w]

Thank you Eckhart Tolle🙏for saving lives 🌈🌹❤️✌️🫠👏

[@Yanto-The-Bard]

We ❤You Eckhart.

[@midnightblue2893]

Thanks Eckhart great reminder that all we have is the NOW to make the most of life! 💜

[@stephenflood3463]

💜💯💜

[@roberttuzzolo119]

I can listen to this man for hours. So true. Nothing is more important than now.

[@S3eauchemin]

Yup. Less unnecessary thinking, less BS in your life. More now.

[@jonassousa4579]

Eckhart Tolle, é um presente que a consciência deu a si mesmo❤

[@SophiaSantucci]

Dearest Being, yes, yes and yes to everything you shared. Love and Light!

[@fazeelmahmood22]

Pray for me plz🙏

[@Perujay-dl2bs]

Who is that 'me' that needs to be prayed for? Meditate on that question right now.

[@HeyY.T.StopDeletingMyComments]

🙏

[@fazeelmahmood22]

@@Perujay-dl2bs Yeah, my mind that says that in order to awaken consciousness I need good luck and that good luck is possible by prayers of good souls😊😇

[@ninopavkovic9382]

​@@Perujay-dl2bs That's an inappropriate response to an emotional request, although true. An indication of being in presence is the intentional use of relativity and scale. Namaste, my brother: Nino.

[@franciscoveras7158]

Don't worry Let it go.❤

[@ismaelmarksteiner]

A billion years from now it’ll be now.

[@terefefeyssa877]

Now really timeless. It has nothing to do with time

[@ismaelmarksteiner]

@@terefefeyssa877 exactly 😌🙏💚

[@terefefeyssa877]

@@ismaelmarksteiner : After having the book" The Power of Now" ,It took me a long time to understand what NOW meant by asking myself the measure of now in time. For example,is NOW a minute? 5 minutes? 20 seconds? How about 15 seconds? When you choose one as "NOW", You get a contradiction that doesn't work. So, now is not a single and measured time. It is impossible. That was my first glimpse. Now can not be expressed in time at all.

[@ismaelmarksteiner]

@@terefefeyssa877 we’re not disagreeing, the moment is timeless ✨ past, present, future are thoughts, in the Now. 🙏💚

[@johngreen4683]

If the Earth was the size of a tennis ball the sun would be the size of a basket ball, our solar system would be the size Britain and the Milky way the size of Earth, and the Universe, well the Universe would remain exactly as it is, infinite 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@joelmichael777]

Thank you!!❤ When we spend enough time practicing these teachings, We eventually realize we are always already in the NOW without thought. So, it’s not really about not thinking. It’s about realizing thought is like all else: energy/light and that we are only ever the observation itself. We don’t BEcome the I AM. We simply remember that we always already ARE the stillness/silence/peace/observation/I AM.

[@stevenfrigo4635]

Awesome talk, thank you ☺️ Eckhart.

[@abumutaka1373]

The only thing that is of absolute importance is the awakening of consciousness through you.

[@astroarunshah]

Love you Eckhart

[@ananto4j]

Thank you ❤

[@josebuenfil7559]

Gracias E.T.

[@esmegreen3145]

Thanks!

[@WalidHadd-jm1xb]

Hello ❤

[@dimanceart4510]

Thank ✨🙏❤🙏✨you!!

[@sandylunden5782]

Eckharts skin looks amazing! I wonder if he gets facials 🥰

[@shellpen7326]

Maybe, but I believe he’s aging much slower because he is mainly always in the present moment

[@tanakaren1822]

Spiritual Luminosity! Does not come in a jar...

[@dougcameron6609]

Little bit too much sun

[@philwyatt2176]

Thanks

[@mindlovesera]

감사합니다 사랑합니다 🩵

[@EduardoGonzalez-xi1uy]

It is how eckhart looks actually? He is old but emanates light

[@VictorB.Henrickson]

Great video, My relationship of 5 years ended a month ago. The love of my life decided to leave me, I really love her so much I can’t stop thinking about her, I’ve tried my very best to get her back in my life, but to no avail, I’m frustrated, I don’t see my life with anyone else. I’ve done my best to get rid of the thoughts of her, but I can’t, I don’t know why I’m saying this here, I really miss her and just can’t stop thinking about her

[@JermaineW.Hoskins]

i have been in such a situation. i love my woman and unfortunately we separated about two years ago, but i could not let her go, so i had to do all i could to get her back, i had to seek the help of a spiritual adviser who helped me bring her back, now we are back together, and i must say i am enjoying every moment.

[@VictorB.Henrickson]

wow, please how did you get a spiritual adviser, and how do i reach him?

[@JermaineW.Hoskins]

Dr Ben Spell Castle is the advisor I use. Just research the name. You’d find necessary details to work with to set up an appointment

[@JermaineW.Hoskins]

you can look his name up online and you will find all you need.

[@VictorB.Henrickson]

Thanks for sharing. I curiously searched for his full name and his website popped up after scrolling a bit.

[@brooke3724]

Best Comedian on earth 🌎 today 😂

[@johnnymoondog]

There is no such thing as a process. There is only the Now !

[@JasonSchmidt-1979]

Vizzini giving advice

[@carol5205]

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[@Anonymous-yk9yq]

Could you please add the waterfall outro clip again, please?

[@fumancu8625]

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[@Olga8888]

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[@alfreddifeo9642]

🙏🙏🙏

[@grunherzjg-5443]

💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

[@ingerceriksson6803]

❤🙏❤️🌟❤️

[@beatleme2]

wonder how hed take it if his spouse died unexpectinly like mibe did with cancer in 3 mths married for 13 known n loved each other for 30..was only 50 thinking it was menopause... :(.. but this helps, so thanks :)

[@nataliabecerraulloa1450]

tengo una consulta, los videos de la membresia, tienen subtitulos?

[@Jigs-fp5cg]

Could be still.

[@RN-wh5bk]

The only thing of absolute importance here on earth, is one's embodiment of consciousness, all the rest is secondary ....

[@billsezame4132]

Since I met Master Eckart, I live in the Now. Before that I was always in the Past, but it is memories, now, because I'm in the Now. But I have a problem: what will happen in the future if I should live in the future? The future is not the now and it would be difficult to be in the now, even tomorow. I have asked many great masters, but they dont know. If someone (even not a great master...) knows the answer, tell me. (And it is not 42, that's for sure.)

[@Illuminated333]

There’s no such thing as the future, there is only now. Time is not linear. It’s vertical. The future is a concept.. it isn’t a place. The now is all that matters and what you perceive as the future will be molded by the now.

[@ferdinandalexander8053]

Now is the only One that is present as It is present as the Present Itself. A little “you,” a secondary self will never experience the Now. Only Now is! There is nothing besides this One Alone All.

[@djjayem100]

So can someone confirm that you have to practice being present over time for it to last longer and longer by watching your thoughts and dismissing them ?

[@aammssaamm]

No.

[@Xektt]

Everything in this incarnation that you engage in conciously, requires practice. Blessings! 💙💙💙

[@johngreen4683]

Letting thoughts pass without interest or attention becomes a habit after a while, it's understanding and truly accepting they are not your thoughts, you are not responsible for them because thoughts are self arising and mean absolutely nothing. As someone on this channel once put it " they are not your thoughts, they are not even really about you". The mind produces thoughts of fear, worry anger ect, so it's actually the mind not us who is afraid, worried about angry 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Aes-Salvation-or-Annihilation]

God is the Most Great, none has the right to be worshipped except God, there is no god or divinity but God, God's Power is made perfect in weakness, I happily accept the tests and trials and tribulations ordained by God for me, and I will endure this (brutal trial) too joyfully and mourningly, for O God, Your Grace is sufficient for me, and to You am I faithful to my death, You are the King and Protector and Lord and Light and Ruler and Controller and Creator of the heavens and the earth and everything in them! ------------ God is Here. God is Present, Ever-Present, Right Now, God Always IS. God is Alive. God's Presence is Light. Presence is not a thing of in itself, its about the Who, Who is present. More better, Who IS. God is present, since God exists, since God is Alive, God is present, God is present, since God IS. I testify and bear witness that the One looking through my eyes, Who is 'in' me, Who speaks to me through my mouth (voice) and through my mind, and moves my body and moves my fingers (and teaching me stuff with them), is indeed and Certainly God, the God of Jesus, and there is no god but Him. And thus, the Hindu Yogis rightly proclaimed the Highest and most Fundamental teaching... That God is consciousness.

[@miked.8790]

Eckhart Tolle is worth 100 million dollars. Yes lol, 100 million. That's crazy!

[@larryprimeau5885]

some times there is a lot on your plate.

[@valerianthemackiii5896]

⭐️*⭐️*⭐️*⭐️*⭐️

[@esmegreen3145]

Ppl only relate to joyful ppl. - Ess

[@richieroberts1588]

Love listening and watching Eckhart Is this a recent video?... obviously im watching NOW but wondered when it was made? 😊

[@Kenny49ERS]

Red Bull would benefit this man

[@rachelhovells]

🙏🙏🫶❤️

[@calikokat100]

i like the past...blasphemy...🙃

[@jamesbullard8300]

Being awake is sort of of trippy like using psychotropic drugs all new

[@cynraver]

✖️

[@robertopuccianti8498]

🙏🧡🔥🌻

[@southpolebeach]

fff eckhart u are so alright

[@HASEYA777]

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[@JenniferLynn-kk7tk]

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[@DavidAlexander-xq2jb]

Oh really? Tell me more! Always interested in hearing stories of successes.

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[@RobertAnthony-kh5kk]

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[@brooke3724]

What ? NOW OR NOW OR NOW WHAT IS THE NOW ? 😂❤

[@oldchannel2015]

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[@rezapourmaryam1653]

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[@kasia4919]

Eckhart🫂❤❤❤🙏

[@malgorzatabochenska6083]

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