Eckhart Tolle

Millions of people in this world live with this heaviness and they don't realize this heaviness that they call my life is actually a narrative that they tell themselves.

That mind-made sense of self is utterly fiction.

Can you see how insane that is?

You've been one of my great inspirations here on the planet.

Guided millions and millions of people to an understanding of who they really are.

Your relationship with the present moment is dysfunctional.

Your entire life is dysfunctional.

Make the present moment your friend.

To get out of that...

Usually if you are, um,

not conscious of how your mind operates, and many people still are not conscious of how their mind operates, they locate all the source of their troubles outside themselves.

So they perceive whatever their life situation is, and every life situation is to some extent problematic,

There's no life situation that is totally perfect where everything is going well, no matter how much you practice positive thinking, which is, of course, a wonderful thing to do.

Nevertheless, there will always be things that are problematic in every life situation.

So life always challenges you.

No matter what stage you're at in your life, you get new challenges.

Even if you are highly conscious or let's say enlightened, even the enlightened person still gets challenged by life situations.

And that's a good thing.

We may come back to that a little bit later.

The beginning of an awakening for people out of their suffering is the realization that most of the