Eckhart Tolle
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Wow.
The present moment was so joyful and beautiful.
And I had no money, nothing.
For a while, I had no home.
But it was lovely, sitting on park benches.
Present moment was so fulfilling.
And then gradually,
I was able to start doing again.
And now I am still, I love just be, just to be, to contemplate nature or even just to sit in a room and just be.
But
But I'm able to do because I wrote the books, I do teachings, I travel, so I give talks and retreats.
So I am able to function on that level.
But the irony is,
that all my doing is in the service of teaching being.
In fact, Oprah said, if you only read one book in your life, read A New Earth.
Well, ultimately, the ultimate truth is one.
And out of the one, you can extrapolate and several other truths arise out of one.
The ultimate choice is realize who or what you are.
Realize that you are, in essence, not a person.
You are consciousness.