The Key to Spiritual Awakening: Eckhart Tolle Explains Consciousness

Eckhart Tolle shares powerful insights on the importance of presence and the nature of spiritual awakening in this thought-provoking video. He observes that many people live as if they are longing to be somewhere else, never fully present in the moment, which creates a sense of dissatisfaction. Tolle uses the analogy of waking up from sleep to describe the process of spiritual awakening, emphasizing the clear distinction between being spiritually asleep and awake. He concludes by stating that normal human consciousness is actually a form of unconsciousness, as it is heavily conditioned by the past.
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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.

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Ego centric consciousness is awareness in service of fear whereas the awakened state is consciousness in service of love which is the Absolute principle of creation.

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There are no truer words than these 🙏. If you listen to them with your heart putting them into action you ARE the Universe itself that lives through you. There's really no need for anything else. ❤ So grateful 💓🙏✨✨✨✨🌺

[@johngreen4683]

Knowing and truly accepting what you don't truly know is probably the greatest wisdom there is. When trusting replaces the need to know there is a peace and happiness that cannot possibly exist when we are thinking and trying to know what we can't possibly know at this moment in time 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Loved-ByGod]

Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven. Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. I used to follow these new-age demonic mindset until Jesus Christ set me free and He can do the same for you.

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I met many Jesus cultivist, who were calling other people demons, but they were demons them self in the way... They are scary... Probably if there was 17th century they would burn you... Scary individuals, run as far as you can from these Jesus zombies

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@@Loved-ByGod that is your belief and you are very entitled to have it, but equally all non Christians are entitled to their own beliefs too. Freedom from religion is every bit if not even more important than freedom of religion. There are literally hundreds of religions in the world and each one claims to be the one true religion, to each their own. Knowing what neither you or anyone else can possibly know at this moment in time is freedom while believing what others have told you to believe and becoming to afraid to question their words is being conditioned. I genuinely wish you the freedom from conditioning 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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@@johngreen4683 Nice reply John, your cool, calm, collected explaination moved me. I'm with you on that mate.🙏🙏🙏🙏

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For me that is faith in the Universe 😊❤

[@andytheiss85]

the spiritual experience becomes far more profound when you stop trying to know what comes next... when you stop waiting for the next high energy day/full moon/eclipse/astrological alignments

[@Loved-ByGod]

Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven. Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. I used to follow these new-age demonic mindset until Jesus Christ set me free and He can do the same for you.

[@Sandra-fc8pc]

@@Loved-ByGod I belive in Jesus, and so does Eckhart Tolle. I don’t think the Churches are pure, the devil infiltrates everything, but it doesen’t mean God/ Counsiousness/ Divine beings/ Angels don’t exist, just that Devils are fooling us as much as they can. They are also creations of God, as we are, and life or spirits are all the same, part of the oneness. So you are me and I am you, in a way, because we are all God experiencing life in a new way, since the only thing that do exist is God.. He/ She/It is intelligence and pressence, Divine force. It’s cool and it’s difficult and we are in this game to learn, do wrong, but mainly now, finish this game on earth and evolve to a higher state! So looking forward to the new reality/ heaven on earth!!! Let the love consious people stay here and evil spirited consiousiouesness move on to some othe dimension of earth or where ever. I don’t care, as long as they are not here any more.. 😂😂😂❤❤❤

[@blucat4]

Nothing wrong with eclipses though. Just got to realise that what happens every day is amazing too. Birds, flowers, colour vision etc. 🙂

[@Christrulesall2]

Your daily teachings are a welcoming balm to my spirit. Thank you, Master Eckhart.❤🙏🏿

[@cloudsofwonder7004]

Accepting Mystery Self as Incarnation of Conciosness of Christ Present in the Now brings Joy in my life and when I live like this I am Awake ☘️

[@rogerlin9602]

1:35 What’s your state of consciousness right now? Ask yourself when encountering a situation. Thanks Eckhart. 18 April 2024. 🥂💪🏻💖💗⛈🍕🪴🌼💥🏃💥🏄🏼🪴😇😇🍀🍀🍁🔥🔥

[@Initwithlove]

Thank you over and over again. Awakening brings a lot of joy and happiness.❤🎉😂

[@Misslotusification]

Thoughts and emotions telling that 'sth is wrong' that unconscious people experience are valid: they're suffering, they're unconscious and intrinsically feel that sth is wrong indeed... For many of us, realising that sth is wrong is how we end up here...

[@TheRebelliousMeatPuppet]

The 'keys' to spiritual awakening are generally copious amounts of pain and suffering. Most people, when they're comfortable lack motivation and interest in all that spiritual stuff. Turn up the dial on pain and/or suffering, all the sudden the consciousness comes online and begins questioning the source(s) of the pain. Viola, the awakening begins!

[@usr909]

Suffering has meaning only if it helps to transcend human existence. If it doesn't, then it has been in vain.

[@TheRebelliousMeatPuppet]

@@usr909 It's a paradox isn't it? I don't think it was a paradox created by benevolence myself.

[@usr909]

@@TheRebelliousMeatPuppet That’s why the right suffering is the one that helps you permanently escape from that thing that causes it to you.

[@TheRebelliousMeatPuppet]

​@@usr909 Agreed. I have a playlist on my channel of content I've created (monologues) philosophizing on/about pain and suffering, titled as such. Why? Because I've experienced a LOT of it...learned a few things along the way. Try to teach people so they're not so bewildered if they get blind sided by life events that cause pain and suffering. We can suffer poorly or we can suffer well...either way, life, here, in this place, is suffering (and quite painful much of the time).

[@usr909]

@@TheRebelliousMeatPuppet It’s because of how natural laws operate on Earth. All human creatures on the planet experience some form of suffering but it’s 99% in vain because of lack of intelligence and short life to make the right difference. Someone said that humans die as spiritual children. The inner work for transcendence is so difficult and demanding of intelligence, life experience and abilities that given the short human life there got to be some super efforts to succeed.

[@saamtango]

Vielen Danke ! Many blessings !

[@starlight3363]

Love to you Eckhart. You are beautiful person. I found you years and years ago and I am so thankful.

[@garyjohnson3751]

Circumstances don’t matter state of being does and determines your circumstances

[@ivanwesteurope]

I love you, master.

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Peace 🕊️ Love 💖 and Harmony 🎶

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and bots

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Jai Shree Gurudev 🙏

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Thank you 🙏🌌💚

[@user-uh2ns7bh9d]

What a truly magical place we find ourselves in. It's perfection is ineffable 😊

[@veraintuizione6497]

🙏 So true.❤ Beyond any reasonable doubt the present moment IS what it IS. We can't argue about it because this means running towards madness. Fluid like water we embrace the present moment whoever it may be. Everything will be fine, anyway. So grateful 💓🙏✨✨✨🌺

[@laraanna2791]

Love you, Eckhart. Open my eyes!❤

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Thank You're ❤🎉

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Thanks 🙏

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Beautiful ❤

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RELAXED.

[@stephenflood3463]

Thank you so much for your continuous lighthearted teachings Eckhart.🙏

[@ashleyannephd]

Yes, learning to harness the power of living in the moment is a life changing skill. Thank you for this moment of clarity and your obvious love for teaching.

[@swamiBinayee]

Great insight Gurudev

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Leave behind Spritual awakening. Existential awakening is what matters. Awakening to the realities of Climate Crisis Technology advancement Warefare Corruption Distrust Creating a vicious perpetual cycle of untenable suffering is the truth.

[@clue363]

Love is never an illusion.

[@darrylschultz9395]

Love is not an illusion, but Tolle's point was, when you're out with someone you've just met that you find attractive, you can't help performing to some degree, because you haven't got to the stage where you know them well enough for it to feel right and safe to be truly yourself. And it's love only when there's a connection between you while being real

[@lucyinthesky444]

@@darrylschultz9395 Wow. Very well said! 💯😇 People always put their "best foot forward" when they are dating-which, no matter how you look at it, is _not_ authenticity. Therefore, you're absolutely spot-on: *Love* doesn't exist in the _beginning_ stages of a relationship, at least not in the way we define as true love. True, deep, *authentic* and mutually beneficial love is much rarer than it would appear on the surface. You certainly can't love everyone-at least not in the sense that you actually _love_ them the way you might love family or close friends, for instance-and it's not all that likely that "everyone" loves you. Nor should one even _want_ "everyone" to love them. That would be a recipe for disaster and would certainly lead to far too many complications. Right?? 😅 One thing I _do_ know, though, is that the world (and everybody in it) needs more love (not "less"). I hope all who are here eventually find their perfect love (but remember: NOBODY is "perfect!" And keeping that in mind will solve a multitude of issues before they even arise lol). 😇❣

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Echart ..you are so cute you make me feel better and you are very funny. I love you!!!!

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This is what I was going to write 😊😊

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Thank you for sharing 😊

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Direct your good energy and "ID" nature, combined with your will power and pure spirit, into a positive & higher vibrational level of existence. And you will then know exactly, why you are here and what your authentic, original and true purpose is as a loving human being.

[@lucjanpret6522]

It's very interesting to listen this Eckhart and then to read Meister Eckhart in deutsch to discover they are the same Eckhart, one Eckhart! An illumination!

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I read Meister many years ago. I need to find him again. Thanks

[@johngreen4683]

If the only prayer you ever said was " thank you" it would be enough, Meister Eckhart 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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@@johngreen4683 Thank you (for the quote).

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It's beautiful isn't it, gratitude is an extremely wonderful super power to have 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Amen. Need this today TY 😊

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If you’re hurt by others you’re really not getting it. ✨

[@Initwithlove]

True! And so fun when you realize it because you’ve grown🎉❤

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Thanks Eckhart your so funny too! Sending you and everyone love and light! 💜🌌💙

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💜✨💜

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Enjoying your life is always the right thing to do.

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Bold statement saying you sense Jesus’s direct messages and many are altered et al 😮

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🙏🙏🙏

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Thank you Sir for your teaching 🙏 ❤️ ❤❤❤❤❤❤

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She is SOooooo right.

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Did u change the admin recently? These video uploads seem kinda weird..👁️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ the ending also ..😐

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[@chasefancy3092]

"Awakening" is the existential grasp of how "meaning" entails "Perception." The issue stems from the source of "consciousness." The sentience found in oneself is the result of compounding elementary particles to hone and scope the nature of "thought." In order to blend a reasonable state of fruition, you must procure a "barrier" of that which exists around you in relation to what is cultivated through you. Every single particle around you is "conscious." This is where truth lies and it can ONLY be found in God.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

“Would you define and discuss the nature of consciousness? How does consciousness relate to ego?” One part of you is conscious, one-tenth. Nine-tenths of you is unconscious. If the conscious part thinks itself to be the whole, it becomes the ego. Then it forgets about the unconscious; then the part imagines itself to be the whole. Then it is the ego. If the conscious becomes aware of the unconscious also…. That is the whole effort of religion, that is the whole effort of meditation. If the conscious turns back, looks back, and becomes aware of the unconscious also - the dark night within - then the conscious knows that “I am conscious, I am unconscious also. My consciousness is just a wave on the ocean. The unconscious is vast.” Then the ego disappears. Ego is the part, thinking itself to be the whole. Non-ego is the part, becoming aware of the whole. Then the ego disappears. How to define the nature of consciousness? It has never been defined, it never will be defined. Who will define it? To define it you have to be away from it. To define anything you have to stand out of it, you need a distance. Perspective will not be possible if the distance is not there. You are consciousness, you are unconsciousness. There is nobody who can stand outside and define it. You can know it, but you cannot define it. That’s why all religion is mysterious, mystical, vague, cloudy - because no term which is very basic to religion can be defined. The subject cannot be made an object. I cannot put myself in front of me, so I cannot define. Neither has Buddha defined, nor Jesus. Definition as such is debarred by the very nature of the phenomenon. Everything else can be defined because consciousness is the definer. Everything else is before consciousness. The consciousness can know - it can go around, watch, observe, experiment, define, dissect - but who will define consciousness? You cannot go away from it: you are it. You can know it, but you cannot define it. Knowledge is not possible, only knowing. Definitions of God are maps: lines on paper. Definitions of consciousness are maps. And sometimes people get too obsessed with maps."

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is eckhart tolle writing a new book?

[@lekat525]

Jesus knows. That is enough 🕊♥️

[@RudolphGonzales-pz5vj]

The now? For me the now is stillness sense perceptions. But it's hard because I cannot think the now and I cannot become the now. I learned just to feel from my eyes and feel from within my body. I cannot truly force the now or force the experience I can only feel from my eyes and feel my inner globbly self within my body. Globbly means formless lol.

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2:47

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🤔Just a 411....The Sound is bad... 😢

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😘

[@firstnamelastnam3]

Awake thou that sleepest and Christ shall give thee light

[@randomelvis3359]

Exactly, it’s so simply put yet many are still so confused 🙏🏻

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[@mokuho]

What is your state of consciousness in this moment?🤣

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🙏💐💐💚🌹

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❤🙏☮🕉

[@AnandaAbeywardhana-uk2nv]

Eckhart Tolle is trying to explain what is happening in side you. That is about your mind & thoughts. He says that Buddha said about “awakening”. Buddha said nothing to do anything. Buddha gave a massage to the all mankind. He explained shortly and simply about what is happening in side you. That is about your mind & thoughts. Even today that is what man can’t understand. Thoughts are generated through your five senses (external stimuli) & registered in your brain without your knowledge. No time taken. You can do nothing about it. You can’t stop it. Awakening is not a achieve able task. What you have to do is understand what is happening inside you, nothing anything to do. Only you can do understand you.

[@user-cx5ct6xs3q]

Thanks for your beautiful answer, let me just recommend the book "a new earth" to you.

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I’m saying I’ll possess you incase I have to leave dad so you will feel no pain because I’m not here anymore in order to do your job

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You have a nice haircut!

[@eikeksi11]

my peace i give you said someone, could it be its not in thinking, but its supernatural, like you take a drug, your mood is nice, enjoy life, see different, no change in thinking, no new information, maybe ppl are cursed instead of something wrong with their thinking, cursed and forget something, cant see something?

[@philipanderson4673]

Ignorance is Bliss.........

[@stevevoyles3816]

He is not explaining consciousness, he is just stating be aware of what is going on...

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Il fenomeno folcloristico più ricco del mondo.

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😂❤

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He seems so sure about not knowing. Ahhh, the contradiction that is life.

[@jewel2022now]

I quess longing to be somewhere else is like a drug of choice. Run away....

[@positivevibes2468]

LIFE HACK: for anyone struggling to practice what Eckhart is teaching - an untrained mind is a mind full of suffering. Meditate silently for 5-10 min per DAY EVERYDAY on the breath coming in and out of your nostrils. Sounds easy but it’s not. You will have thoughts. Every time you do bring yourself back to that delicate feeling of the air going in and out your nose. You are not failing if you have thoughts. Keep bringing yourself back, THAT is meditation. And THAT is training your brain. And THAT is what will help his teachings actually make a difference in your life. Listening to these teachings it’s just not enough. It is only the tip of the iceberg. YOU must do the work.

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A perfect life hack. Thank you

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Thanks

[@PrettyWhiteLady]

This is exactly how I meditate, but I have been afraid. I'm going to take your advice and finally get back to it daily.

[@positivevibes2468]

@@PrettyWhiteLady Treat it just like daily exercise, only for your brain :) daily practice is key. Insight Timer (free) app helps me to keep with it. But once you do it long enough you won’t have any problem doing it every day. It will come easier and easier. Metta to you :)

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Every once awhile a small bag of chips helps me to get into present moment better.

[@dalj6]

Become one with nothingness and onesness . As nothingness can t become anything and experience any form .

[@darfish5040]

WHY THE PINGING BEFORE AND AFTER HE SPEAKS??????

[@SevenPlanets777]

Meditational chime or awareness bell used in many Asian traditions.

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@@SevenPlanets777 ok thank you.

[@SevenPlanets777]

You're welcome

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That meditation bell makes me wonder if I have sensory processing issues because it gives me a feeling of wanting to jump out of my skin when I hear it 😂

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[@PJB-To-be]

Mark 13:37 "But what I say to you, I say to all: Keep on the watch.” Echart, you misquoted Jesus Christ!

[@CheddaChief]

Sorry can't take that bell!

[@kazumawarren]

If the bell irritates you you're not ready for the message. Maybe go look up some relaxing music

[@Initwithlove]

Yes you can, precious one❤🎉😂

[@paulleffers8217]

Why would you want to go through life never knowing when God already explained everything????????????????????????

[@chiptowers1]

Let me break this down as " I " see it. What is prompting your state of consciousness and what is questioning to ask what is my state of consciousness right now, more so, where is that information going to. What is prompting love from within one being for the attributes of another being that is being recognised. That is the problem with so called teachers and guru's etc, they dont have a clue how the intelligent species initially Formed to realise the Form is doing the prompting. Basically you the intelligent species initial lineage was Formed at it's inception at an epoch, ie you were first FORMED not BORN ie only your physical body and brain was BORN where as your Presence, your I am, your Being was FORMED. Hello! You are always Present and all knowing due to your FORM FORMING. Here we have a Teacher talking to himself. So who is he talking to. Hello! ( chuckle chuckle) Self talk is a verbal expression of an internal position, meaning it expresses inner feelings, non verbal thoughts and intuitions about a situation through speech. Hello!, " intuition" is the ability to understand something instinctively, WITHOUT THE NEED FOR CONSCIOUS REASONING. This teacher is bamboozling your physical all knowing FORM real PRESENCE with non physical consciousness.

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I wonder why money is always connected with finding god 😂

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Yolles a neph👽no truth

[@waynelee1459]

What a load of complete nonsense

[@morgancambara2792]

No my present state of consciousness says I’m not buying what you’re selling. 1.6million subscribers on a government run platform. There is absolutely no chance he’s going to tell us anything. Rabbit hole after rabbit hole

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You can do powerful things if you don’t know that you can’t 🫶🙏

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