Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings
Episodes
Essential Teachings Special: Finding The Essential Self
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart leads a meditation and then answers questions. He says the Essential Self is not defined by the personality, life circumstances or history. It...
Essential Teachings Special: Rising Above Thought
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart says sometimes in our efforts to become present we fall below thought. It happens when we’re consumed by negativity. He explains often peopl...
Essential Teachings Special: Daily Life As Spiritual Practice
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart talks about the importance of using our daily lives as spiritual practice which he calls presence power. Throughout the day, when we’re not ...
Essential Teachings Special: The Spaces Between Thoughts
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart leads a live meditation on pausing our thoughts without suppressing them. Eckhart says it’s more important to be aware of oneself as presenc...
Essential Teachings Special: We Are Designed to Awaken
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart answers questions on such topics as eliminating depression, dealing with a heavy pain body and why enlightenment seems to be such a rare pheno...
Essential Teachings Special: Deepening Presence
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart answers questions on a wide range of topics like: What’s the function of the ego? How does it feel to be enlightened? And what’s the best ...
Essential Teachings Special:Finding Peace; Accepting What Is
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart says the world is not here to make us happy, it’s here to make us conscious. If we are looking for fulfillment in a particular relationship,...
Essential Teachings Special: Releasing Unconsciousness
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart says sometimes we experience a gravitational force that seems to push us back into unconsciousness. When we feel overwhelmed by watching the n...
Essential Teachings Special: Transforming Our Suffering into Awakening
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart talks with a live audience about the paradox of suffering and awakening. He says the ego, in its attempt to strengthen itself, creates distres...
Essential Teachings Special: Forgiveness and Awakening
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart discusses forgiveness. He says most of us carry resentments or grievances. Eckhart calls them internal dark spots that block consciousness fro...
Essential Teachings Special: Accessing the Dimension Beyond Thought
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart explains why our goal is to learn to access the transcendent part of ourselves which is beyond thinking. Most people have no connection to thi...
Essential Teachings Special: Real Change Begins with Our State of Consciousness
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart says the most important things we can do is transform our state of consciousness, realize our connection to the source and let go of our self-...
Essential Teachings Special: Know Thyself: Remembering Who We Are
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart quotes ancient Greek philosopher, Pythagorus who said, “Know thyself.” Eckhart says unfortunately our educational system is geared toward ...
Essential Teachings Special: Rising Above Life’s Challenges
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart asks, “When life’s challenges strike, how do we respond?” He questions do we rise above worn-out patterns with new awareness or do we sp...
Essential Teachings Special: Growing Up and Waking Up
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart discusses the path to awakening. He says there are two stages to a person’s life: waking up and growing up. Many start to awaken, only to la...
Essential Teachings Special: Liberation from the Mind
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart says the beginning of liberation is when you realize you are not the thinker. He says many people derive their identity from what the mind tel...
Essential Teachings Special: The Joy of Being
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart discusses discovering the joy of being. He says in any given moment we have the chance to remain open to life, align with what is and experien...
Essential Teachings Special: The Deep I
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart takes listeners through a live meditation inspired by a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The wick of individual life runs deep into the oil ...
Essential Teachings Special: The Stillness Within
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart takes listeners through two live meditations about the stillness within. He says finding the transcendent dimension is the only thing that wil...
Essential Teachings Special: Addiction to Thinking
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart answers questions on several topics, including one about addiction. He says people are addicted to many substances. But the greatest addicti...
Essential Teachings Special: Surrendering the Ego
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart addresses topics like surrendering the ego, what to do with anger and how to confront our fears. Eckhart says fear arises when we become drawn...
Essential Teachings Special: Liberation Through Stillness
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart leads a meditation and then answers questions from a live audience. He says the most important thing to achieve in our lifetime is stillness b...
Essential Teachings Special: You are the Light of Consciousness
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart talks with a live audience about the new consciousness he sees emerging around the world. He says one of life’s great mysteries is that the ...
Essential Teachings Special: Beyond the Conceptual Self
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart talks with a live audience about letting go of our false sense of self. He says when we base our identity on externals: our looks, what we do ...
Essential Teachings Special: Presence: The Natural Path that Leads to Life
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart talks with a live audience about freeing oneself from the mind to find presence. He says, we must become aware of the harmful thoughts that ...
Essential Teachings Special: Accept Each Moment as if You Had Chosen It
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart talks with a live audience about the process of becoming aware. When challenges arise, he says go with it. Learn to accept each moment as if w...
Essential Teachings Special: Bringing Consciousness to This World
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart talks with a live audience about his belief that we are meant to bring consciousness to this world. To do that, we must keep the pathways clea...
Essential Teachings Special: The Next Stage of Human Evolution
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: September 30, 2021. Eckhart talks to a live audience. He says most of us are going through a transition in consciousness which he c...
Essential Teachings Special: Awakening Right Where You Are
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: September 23, 2021. Eckhart talks with a live audience and urges participants to wake up from the delusion that the things we think...
Essential Teachings Special: Releasing Barriers to Presence
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: September 16, 2021 In this podcast, Eckhart talks with a live audience about clearing away the obstacles to presence. Eckhart says ...
Essential Teachings Special: Presence, Healing and Wholeness
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: September 9, 2021 Eckhart answers questions from a live audience including healthcare professionals: doctors, nurses, and therapist...
Essential Teachings Special: Wisdom And Stillness
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart talks with a live audience about the importance of cultivating wisdom. He says the first step is acknowledging the magnitude of all that we do...
Essential Teachings Special: Inner Spaciousness
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eckhart talks to a live audience about bringing meditation practice, inner spaciousness and what he calls presence, into our everyday lives. However...
Essential Teachings Special: Love and Connection
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: August 19, 2021 Eckhart talks with a live audience filled with both patients and healthcare professionals, about the new consciousn...
Essential Teachings Special: Conscious Relationships
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: August 12, 2021 Eckhart talks to an international audience in Greece. He brings his renowned wisdom to everyday concerns: like how ...
Essential Teachings Special: Love and Connection
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: August 5, 2021 Eckhart Tolle meets with an international audience and answers questions on topics we can all relate to such as: are...
Essential Teachings Special: Eckhart’s Inner Journey
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: July 29, 2021 Eckhart Tolle shares the story of his own personal journey and the spiritual transformation that led to his groundbre...
Essential Teachings Special: Inner Peace
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: July 22, 2021 Eckhart Tolle talks about the path to Inner Peace. He emphasizes that our inner state is not contingent on outer circ...
Essential Teachings Special: The United States of Awareness
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: July 15, 2021 Eckhart Tolle talks with a live audience about a phenomenon he sees unfolding: which is the awakening of individuals ...
Essential Teachings Special: What Is Essential Is Invisible To The Eye
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: July 8, 2021 Eckhart Tolle begins his talk joking with a live audience about a video game reviewed in the New York Times called Sti...
Essential Teachings Special: Purpose of Existence
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: July 21, 2021 Eckhart Tolle touches on the purpose of human existence which he sees as evolutionary, awakening, to become fully hu...
Essential Teachings Special: Dealing With Expectations
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: June 24, 2021In this podcast, Eckhart Tolle answers questions from a live audience about issues we all can relate to… like what t...
Essential Teachings Special: The Time is Always Now
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: June 17, 2021 Eckhart Tolle talks with a live audience about the importance of living in the now. Drawing on ideas from his best-s...
Essential Teachings Special: Transcending Our Stories
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: June 10, 2021 Eckhart Tolle talks with a live audience about our tendency to manufacture stories...about ourselves and others; our...
Essential Teachings Special: Practice of Presence
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: May 21, 2021 Eckhart Tolle elaborates on the paradox of order and chaos that exists in our world. For many of us, especially this ...
Essential Teachings Special: Transforming Our Consciousness Through Adversity
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: May 27, 2021 Eckhart Tolle says that we should not panic when life’s difficulties arise. He says adversity actually plays a crit...
Essential Teachings Special: Challenging Times Can Awaken Us
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: May 21, 2021 Eckhart Tolle shares his wisdom on living through challenging times. Whether it’s political upheaval, the pandemic...
Essential Teachings Special: The Paradox of Order and Chaos
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: May 21, 2021 Eckhart Tolle elaborates on the paradox of order and chaos that exists in our world. For many of us, especially this ...
Essential Teachings Special: Challenging Times Can Awaken Us
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: May 21, 2021Eckhart Tolle shares his wisdom on living through challenging times. Whether it’s political upheaval, the pandemic or...
Disorder Precedes Transcendence
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart talks with an audience in Hawaii and then answers questions. Someone asks if the human race is going to survive. Eckhart expl...
What We Call My Life Is a Mental Fiction
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart elaborates on the narratives we create called My Life. He says these stories are really a work of fiction. It’s like we’r...
Reclaiming Consciousness from The Mind
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart talks about the Being dimension which is where we find our true essence. However, for many of us Eckhart says our beingness g...
Pain Is the Touchstone To All Spiritual Growth
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart talks about how difficult life circumstances often trigger awakening. Whether it’s a life-threatening disease, loss of a lo...
We Are Part of a Vast Evolutionary Movement
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart explains that it is the destiny of all people to awaken from the conditioning of their minds and to free themselves from comp...
There Is Beauty in The Simplest Things
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart talks with an audience in Prague. He explains what happens as we become more conscious. He says we suddenly recognize our Bei...
Liberation From the Ego Is The End Of Suffering
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart talks further about a necessary shift in consciousness. Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity and Hinduism all point to this...
The Search for Identity
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart talks with an audience in Prague. He explains that most people are searching for an identity. For many that leads to disappoi...
Freedom From Reactivity
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart talks further about freeing ourselves from the ego. He says while it served a powerful purpose for our spiritual growth, it’...
Sensing The Sacredness of The Universe
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart talks about the two different aspects of knowing: conceptual knowing and a deeper kind of intuitive knowing. He says indigeno...
Love The Is-Ness of The Present Moment, No Matter What
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart says as we grow spiritually, we approach the challenges in our lives differently. We may encounter obstacles or difficult peo...
Taking Action as A Spiritual Practice
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart talks with an audience in Hawaii. He jokes that while many are reluctant to leave the island paradise, their task is to bring...
The Difficult People In Your Life Are A Catalyst For Change
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart explains once we accept that life is here to challenge us, we can let go of our resistance. When adversity shows up, includin...
Know Thyself
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart unveils more of his unique wisdom. He elaborates on knowing one’s self beyond our conceptual identity. He explains we all h...
Be In The World, But Not Of It
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart discusses the Horizontal and the Vertical dimensions as he has in previous talks. Eckhart explains the Horizontal is the real...
The Greatest Spiritual Practice Is Letting Go Of Thought
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart talks more about transcending the heavy burden of self. He says most people can’t stand themselves and yearn to be free…e...
The Realization of Being is The End of All Problems
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart talks about living more consciously and how it transforms our lives. He says when we live in both the Being and the Doing dim...
Every Person Contains the Seed Of Awakening
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart says all of us will experience a flowering of consciousness. However, it may not take root in this lifetime. Eckhart says man...
The Transcendent Dimension is Discovery Not Achievement
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart discusses one of his key messages: our primary purpose here on Earth is a spiritual one. He says it is our job to free oursel...
The Pain Body Is Part of the Human Condition
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Eckhart talks further about the pain body. He compares it to the character Gollum, in Lord of the Rings. He says the pain body, feeds ...
The Ego Loves Its Problems
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart says one of the hurdles we must confront regularly is our unconscious thinking. He says our relentless, self-centered thoug...
Do You Embody the Awakening of Consciousness?
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Eckhart talks with an audience in Stockholm, Sweden. He says the idea is to inhabit The Now. Ironically, he says most of us try to es...
Awakening Is Necessary for Our Survival
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart elaborates further about finding freedom from the bondage of self. He says the first step is to confront our thinking and res...
Nothing In This World Provides Lasting Happiness
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart talks about how many of us strive to become a bigger, better version of “me.” We do that through myriad achievements, wea...
Awareness Of Our Thoughts Is the Beginning Of Awakening
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart talks with an audience in Adelaide, Australia. He says participating in the retreat will allow everyone to have a taste of p...
There Is Something Beyond “My Life”
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart explains that many of us must go through a lot of unhappiness before we awaken. He says he’s never met anyone whose life is...
Continuous Doing Leads to Forgetfulness of Being
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart talks about the fact that many people live in a continuous state of waiting for the next thing that will magically transform ...
The Light of Being Shines Through Our Humanness
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Eckhart talks about bringing together the human and the being aspects of ourselves. He says we would be consigned to a miserable f...
This Moment is the Most Important
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart describes the subtleties of what happens when we become present. He says the mind slows down, thinking recedes, awareness rus...
The Power of Unconditioned Consciousness
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart talks about the importance of connecting with what he calls unconditioned consciousness. He says it’s the source of all cr...
There Is a Self In Every Thought
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart explains what it means to be unconscious. He says we all have inner scripts which are old dysfunctional patterns handed down ...
It Is Always Now
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart talks with an audience in Brisbane, Australia. He explains the reason for their gathering is to accelerate their awakening. H...
Beyond The Dream of Thinking
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart inspires a crowd in New York City. He talks about the importance of rooting ourselves in the transcendent dimension especiall...
The Unobserved Mind Leads to Suffering
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Eckhart talks to an audience in New York City. He reminds them of life’s fleeting nature and that in eighty or ninety years the na...
The Evolutionary Journey Still Ahead
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart talks about how far we have yet to go in our spiritual growth. He says what’s critical is that we transcend our thinking ...
We Are Not Fully Human Yet
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart talks about the spiritual evolution of humanity. He says our development is far from finished. In fact, he says it coincides ...
Eckhart Tolle Special: Healing Fear Through Difficult Times
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: May 21, 2021Eckhart Tolle answers questions about how to deal with our fears, especially when confronted with a crisis. He says we ...
Eckhart Tolle Special: Finding Death Before Death Finds You
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: May 21, 2021Eckhart Tolle delves into a topic that is taboo for many of us…and that is the subject of Death. In the Western world...
Eckhart Tolle Special: The Paradox of Order and Chaos
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Original Air Date: May 21, 2021Eckhart Tolle elaborates on the paradox of order and chaos that exists in our world. For many of us, especially this pa...
Every Setback Is Part of The Journey
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart talks about the coming changes for humanity, including a shift to a different level of consciousness. He explains collectivel...
Releasing The Ego’s Grip
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Eckhart talks about the pitfalls of the ego and the need to feel superior. He explains we seek an identity through external distinctio...
The Bare Naked Is-ness of the Present Moment
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart laughs with his audience. He exclaims there’s hope for humanity when such a big crowd seeks greater consciousness. He also ...
Glimpsing What Is Sacred
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart says it’s vitally important that we become familiar with the mystical aspect of our lives. However, he explains it is not s...
Right Action Follows Awakened Consciousness
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart explains to a live audience that a deeper movement has brought them together and the goal is to help them awaken. He says man...
Love Is Recognizing the Other as Yourself
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart talks about the future of religion. He says the next step for the human race is to shift from worshiping God as a concept, to...
The Kingdom of Heaven Is A State of Consciousness
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart talks about how we define success. He asks: Do we look to the world to determine that for us? If yes, we may be heading down ...
Dismissing The Demand That Life Should Be Perfect
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart continues his talk with an audience in Budapest, explaining that if we are waiting for the world to make us happy in the form...
Dropping The Narrative of The Unhappy Me
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Eckhart talks to an audience in Budapest, Hungary. The crowd erupts with laughter and applause when he speaks a few words in Hungaria...
It Takes No Time To Be Who You Are
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Eckhart, reminds us that the world is not here to make us happy, it’s here to make us conscious. He says if we don’t embrace that,...
Our Experience Of Life Is Not Determined By What Happens To Us…
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Eckhart talks to an audience in Chicago. He recalls fond memories of traveling to the Windy City to Harpo Studios back in 2008. For 10...
The One Transcendent Source Of All Light
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Eckhart talks with an audience in Paris. He contemplates the mysteries of space and the subatomic world. He says the greatest mystery...