Eckhart Tolle
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Beingness itself.
And you can feel that.
You can sense that here and now.
For a moment, your mind subsides.
You're not thinking anymore without making an effort.
You're not thinking anymore.
And are you without any thought?
You can't explain what it is, but you can sense that there is a light of consciousness.
There is a presence.
Right.
An inherent sense of aliveness.
Sometimes people can feel it with their entire body.
The entire body is pervaded by a sense of aliveness.
You are.
All you...
That's the ancient Greeks already said, know thyself as the most important thing in life.
Know thyself.
And that refers to the deepest knowing, knowing yourself as consciousness.
And then the person still operates for a while, and it operates actually much better when you're connected to that which transcends the person.
For those people who are comfortable with theistic language, you could say that connects you to God.