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Lewis HowesEckhart Tolle 3 Deadly Habits That DESTROY The LAW of ATTRACTION In Your Life
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Eckhart Tolle on Presence, Ego, Suffering, and Manifesting From Fullness
- Tolle says psychological suffering comes from the narrative the mind attaches to situations rather than from the situations themselves, and that noticing this is the start of awakening.
- He describes the present moment as the portal to presence, argues that problems live in the mind, and says what we call the future is an extension of our present state of consciousness.
- On the law of attraction, he names neediness and focus on lack, giving without genuine motive or skipping appreciation, and ego-driven desires as ways people undermine manifesting, while recommending appreciation, giving, and feeling already fulfilled.
- He contrasts the horizontal dimension of doing and becoming with the vertical dimension of the present moment, and says deep satisfaction and real love come from recognizing oneness beneath the personal identity.
- In closing, he names realizing you are consciousness, radical acceptance of now, and living consciously as his core truths and his definition of greatness.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasSuffering comes from the story about a situation, not the situation itself
Tolle uses the example of waiting in a line and suggests asking how you would experience the moment without adding interpretation, which often reveals the moment is free of suffering.
Problems live in the mind, while challenges are dealt with
He distinguishes a life situation, which exists in time, from life, which is always now, and says that in the present moment you either act or accept, so the problem cannot survive.
Positive surrender is an uncompromising yes to what is
Tolle says arguing with what is feeds the ego, which makes the present moment an enemy, while acceptance is a place of inner power and often lets right action arise spontaneously.
Manifest from fullness rather than neediness
He says people sabotage the law of attraction by focusing on lack, and recommends appreciating the abundance already around and within you, then feeling the fullness of already having what you want.
Egoic desires may be achieved but won't satisfy
Tolle says that to the ego nothing is ever enough, so even wealthy and famous people can stay unhappy, and he says there are two ways to be unhappy: not getting what you want and getting it.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesThe suffering did not arise, was not caused by, by the external circumstance. It was caused by the narrative in your mind about the circumstance.
— Eckhart Tolle
Make the present moment your friend, not your enemy. Make the present moment your friend, then your whole life begins to change. Because what we call future is just an extension of your state of consciousness in the present moment.
— Eckhart Tolle
The problem, any problem you have cannot survive in the present moment. Because problem is a burden that you carry in your mind, your mental emotional field.
— Eckhart Tolle
There is no power in ego itself, in the same way that there's no light in the moon. It's just reflected light.
— Eckhart Tolle
Greatness is to live consciously, to embody consciousness into this lifetime, to embody the unconditioned consciousness in this lifetime.
— Eckhart Tolle
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SPEAKERS
Eckhart Tolle
guestSpiritual teacher and author of The Power of Now and A New Earth.
Lewis Howes
hostHost of The School of Greatness and interviewer on the Lewis Howes channel.
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