Eckhart Tolle

Thank you. I have a comment on that. When life gets challenging, a human being can go two ways. And very often when life gets difficult, some loss, obstacles, many ways challenge can present itself. You can either become more identified with the ego and you become more unhappy. You become a very unhappy human being. reactive, angry, resentful, despondent.

Many, many, many negative states can arise when you're being challenged. That's one way you can go. Or the other way you can go, and that usually happens if there's already a certain amount of presence in you, you've already...

Many, many, many negative states can arise when you're being challenged. That's one way you can go. Or the other way you can go, and that usually happens if there's already a certain amount of presence in you, you've already...

Many, many, many negative states can arise when you're being challenged. That's one way you can go. Or the other way you can go, and that usually happens if there's already a certain amount of presence in you, you've already...

practiced or you've had glimpses of presence or even more than glimpses of presence, when then a challenge comes, it can easily happen that the challenge, one could almost say forces you into becoming more present. It then deepens your presence. So an example, even from my life, there's always a presence in my life. There's always a presence.

practiced or you've had glimpses of presence or even more than glimpses of presence, when then a challenge comes, it can easily happen that the challenge, one could almost say forces you into becoming more present. It then deepens your presence. So an example, even from my life, there's always a presence in my life. There's always a presence.

practiced or you've had glimpses of presence or even more than glimpses of presence, when then a challenge comes, it can easily happen that the challenge, one could almost say forces you into becoming more present. It then deepens your presence. So an example, even from my life, there's always a presence in my life. There's always a presence.

Sometimes when I talk now, there's a presence in the background. I can sense the stillness behind the words. And one could say the words come out of the stillness. And that's even when I go about my daily business, there's always two ordinary things. There is that sense of peace. You are aware of the awareness. I'm aware of the awareness.

Sometimes when I talk now, there's a presence in the background. I can sense the stillness behind the words. And one could say the words come out of the stillness. And that's even when I go about my daily business, there's always two ordinary things. There is that sense of peace. You are aware of the awareness. I'm aware of the awareness.

Sometimes when I talk now, there's a presence in the background. I can sense the stillness behind the words. And one could say the words come out of the stillness. And that's even when I go about my daily business, there's always two ordinary things. There is that sense of peace. You are aware of the awareness. I'm aware of the awareness.

And then two and a half years ago, I went to the doctor, another doctor story, you had one, now I have one. I had certain symptoms, intestinal symptoms, finally had to have a colonoscopy. After the colonoscopy, the doctor said, you have cancer. Oh. And when you hear that, usually, I mean, it could mean, yes, you could have a few more years. It could also mean you only have six months or 12 months.

And then two and a half years ago, I went to the doctor, another doctor story, you had one, now I have one. I had certain symptoms, intestinal symptoms, finally had to have a colonoscopy. After the colonoscopy, the doctor said, you have cancer. Oh. And when you hear that, usually, I mean, it could mean, yes, you could have a few more years. It could also mean you only have six months or 12 months.

And then two and a half years ago, I went to the doctor, another doctor story, you had one, now I have one. I had certain symptoms, intestinal symptoms, finally had to have a colonoscopy. After the colonoscopy, the doctor said, you have cancer. Oh. And when you hear that, usually, I mean, it could mean, yes, you could have a few more years. It could also mean you only have six months or 12 months.

When you hear that, that's, so I was a little shocked. The person was shocked. And immediately, I noticed an enormous intensification of presence, shh. as if somebody had turned up the dimmer switch. And on a practical level, 10 days after the diagnosis, I had an operation. But in those 10 days, I spent hours and hours in intense presence, usually presence in the background.

When you hear that, that's, so I was a little shocked. The person was shocked. And immediately, I noticed an enormous intensification of presence, shh. as if somebody had turned up the dimmer switch. And on a practical level, 10 days after the diagnosis, I had an operation. But in those 10 days, I spent hours and hours in intense presence, usually presence in the background.

When you hear that, that's, so I was a little shocked. The person was shocked. And immediately, I noticed an enormous intensification of presence, shh. as if somebody had turned up the dimmer switch. And on a practical level, 10 days after the diagnosis, I had an operation. But in those 10 days, I spent hours and hours in intense presence, usually presence in the background.

And this presence came into the foreground, so I would sit in my room, just no thought in my head at all, just an enormous amount of awareness, just filled with awareness. I could feel the cells of the body filling with awareness. And I believe that was a kind of self-healing also. And I had the operation and they took a section out of my colon.

And this presence came into the foreground, so I would sit in my room, just no thought in my head at all, just an enormous amount of awareness, just filled with awareness. I could feel the cells of the body filling with awareness. And I believe that was a kind of self-healing also. And I had the operation and they took a section out of my colon.

And this presence came into the foreground, so I would sit in my room, just no thought in my head at all, just an enormous amount of awareness, just filled with awareness. I could feel the cells of the body filling with awareness. And I believe that was a kind of self-healing also. And I had the operation and they took a section out of my colon.

And then after the operation, another scan and said, fine, it hasn't spread anywhere. And I continued with the wonderful presence practice because presence is also extremely healing. So I gave that as an example for when you're really challenged, and you're already familiar what presence is, then you will find that you become, through the challenge, you become more present.