End Suffering by Changing This One Thing | Eckhart Tolle

happiness that they called my life is actually a narrative that they tell themselves.

That mind-made sense of self is utterly fiction. Can you see how insane that is? You've been one of my great inspirations here on the planet. Guided millions and millions of people to an understanding of who they really are.

“Eckhart Toley, your relationship with the present model of dysfunctional, your entire life is”

dysfunctional, makes the present moment your friend, then your whole life begins to change. If someone watching your listening is saying, well, my present is really challenging right now. How can I actually enjoy the present when I'm in breakdown everywhere?

The problem is, lives in the mind to get out of that.

I've got a number of topics today, one being about the law of attraction. I want to talk about stress and anxiety. I want to talk about why people suffer and how to get out of suffering. I want to talk about relationships and how to know when you're in a healthy, dynamic in relationships.

“All these things I want to talk about today, but the first one, I felt like I was trapped”

in suffering for so many years and I didn't know how to get out of this suffering, anxious, stressful feeling that would come and go, that would rumenate at night, that would keep me up at night, that would make me anxious in social settings, that would make me feel like I wasn't good enough and I know people feel a sense of suffering, anxiety, overwhelming stress today, which seems like more than ever.

I'm curious with all of your wisdom and experience. How can we overcome or eliminate stress and suffering and anxiety in our lives when it seems to be crippling us?

“Usually, if you are not conscious of how you mind operates and many people still are not conscious”

of how they mind operates, they locate that all the source of their troubles outside themselves, so they perceive whatever their life situation is and every life situation is to some extent problematic. There's no life situation that is totally perfect where everything is going well, no matter how much you practice positive thinking, which is of course, a wonderful thing to do,

nevertheless, there will always be things that are problematic in every life situation,

life always challenges you, no matter what stage you're at in your life, you get new challenges, even if you are highly conscious or in let's say enlightened, even the enlightened person still gets challenged by life situations, and that's a good thing. We may come back to that a little bit later. The beginning of an awakening for people out of their suffering is the realization that most of the psychological suffering, because this is what we're talking about, we're not talking about

stoic or anything like that, we don't have psychological suffering, the psychological suffering arises from stories that you tell yourself in your mind about situations, about your life or your life situation. As a practical exercise or to introduce this teaching to people, I sometimes recommend this, next time you find yourself in a situation that in which suffering arises, and suffering, of course, is a generic term, it can come in many forms. On one end of the spectrum, suffering is just

feeling irritated or upset about something, it might be a minor thing which we irritated. The other end of the spectrum, there's deep despair, deep depression, sadness, or extreme forms of anxiety, panic, and all that. So you have the two and in between, there's a wide range of different thoughts of suffering that arise, and very often they don't recognize suffering by people. If you're not conscious of how your mind operates, you don't even know that you're suffering. You don't

even know that there is another way, that there would be another way in which you could experience this particular situation. So I recommend, next time you find, you become upset about something or irritated, which is a form of suffering, experiment, let's say, imagine a situation that

airport is a source where often people experience psychological suffering because things don't go

the way they expect them to go out. Especially these things. So you're in a line-up, it's not moving, you're getting more irritated and upset. I could be anywhere, you're waiting, but it's not happening, you're waiting there or in a traffic time or on the telephone or what is answering

“just to get automated message, it says, "Your call is important to us." And the approach with waiting”

time is 45 minutes or whatever, I'd say. And you feel more on what you get angry and irritated. Now, I recommend the following practice, because you're standing there or waiting there,

you might as well practice, ask yourself, "How would I experience this situation if I did not

add any interpretation or any sort to it? How do I experience this moment?" If I didn't add any sort to it, if I did not interpret it in any way, if I just allowed this to be as it is without burning it with this baguished sort of thought. So, let's say, you're standing in this line-up, and it's very irritated. So, how would I experience this, if I did not, in other words, if I did not, in my mind, say, "This is bad." And all the other thoughts that come after that.

“Then, because when you say, "This is bad, then the next one comes into my life is bad," and then”

you get to hold string of associated thoughts that don't negative. How would I experience this moment without adding any sort to it? Okay. So, you stand, and this would bring your attention into the present moment. And so, your attention moves into the present moment, and in this present moment, you're standing there and feeling, you're breathing, you're looking around, people moving, the whatever, the rule is, you find yourself in, you're breathing, you're perceiving things, people,

and suddenly, you may find that this moment is actually free of suffering. The suffering did not arise, was not caused by the external circumstance. It was caused by the narrative in your mind

“about this circumstance. That's a huge distinction, and this is begin to live consciously when”

you realize this. Until you realize that, you live unconsciously, which means, in spiritual terms, to live unconsciously, is to be totally identified with whatever your mind is saying. The, the, the, the, I call it the voice in the head, the narrative in your mind that tells you about how gutsy, how bad things are, how they should be, they, they are, but they shouldn't be,

that should be different, but they are, they are always in this moment, you don't change this moment.

So, you become aware, they put this cover, by the way, 2000 years ago, by, not very well-known, ancient great philosophy, big details, and he said, the, the, the most of your suffering is derived from what your mind is telling you about the situation, but not from the situation itself. Yeah. Yeah. And that's an enormous realization, and that can be the beginning of an awakening, to see that the narrative in your mind is mostly what called is the suffering.

It is possible, of course, at an external situation, may cause physical discomfort, obviously, yes, that's possible, yes, your legs are hurting, or back is hurting, or it's too cold, or too odd, what, physical discomfort, of course, that's possible, but that, if not suffering, it's sense, in which we use this term right here, no, the psychological suffering, unhappiness is another word you could use, this is a generic term for any form of negativity inside yourself, unhappiness

suffering, where to see you begin to realize that most of that arises from a mental narrative about a situation or about your circumstances, but not from the circumstances themselves. And then you can begin to practice. Every time you feel upset is arising, some form of anger, anger arising, some form of negativity, blaming people in situations and saying, this shouldn't be happening, or something is not happening, but it should be happening, or they

So you're spiritually awakening is beginning to be aware of what your mind is saying, the story that you're telling yourself about situations, but also the stories you're telling yourself about what you call your life. So because there are millions of people in this world who are left with a very painful sense of identity, they perceive their life as a bird, but they live with this heaviness, and they don't realize this heaviness that they're called my

“life is actually a narrative that they tell themselves, and that's me, all the things that have”

happened to me, the dreadful things in the past, that people did to me, or circumstances did to me, or maybe even the bird things that I did. So you get a very heavy identity built up and that becomes your sense of self, and even don't realize it's a story you're continuously telling yourself in your mind, but you're so identified with the story that you don't exist, you'd outside of the story. So that is what in some spiritual traditions is called the cells, the Buddha called it

the self, which is the mind-made sense of self, which the Buddha said which ultimately

“you recognize that that mind-made sense of self is ultimately a kind of fiction that you live through.”

So now when you realize that this is the case, this means at this point of realization another dimension of consciousness has a reason in you, which is not your mind, we could call it awareness, or we could call it presence. So when you realize what your mind is doing, that is not part of the conceptual mind that that works through her stories and words and concepts, it is a deeper, or you could say deeper, or higher dimension of consciousness that suddenly has a reason. I often

call it presence, but do another good word for it is awareness. So awareness is the ability to know what your mind is doing, and then the wonderful thing is that as far as this dust glimpses when you detach from the mind and say, oh well, and then you have more moments when you're not suffering,

“because you allow this moment to be as it is. But who are we when we detach from our own mind?”

Very good question. Yes. So at first you were identified with the conceptual mind,

the story making mind, and you, your sense of identity was the story of me. My past, my memories, my beliefs, my... That's right. All these thoughts that are accumulated in my the bank of my mind from the past that I've told myself this happened to me, this is what wrong with me, this is why I'm not good enough or this person did this or whatever. Exactly. Exactly. And now when the awareness arises, you're a sense of who you are, you're a sense of identity

begins to shift from being lodged in the conceptual mind, the voice in the head, it goes to a deeper place and you realize who you are in your essence is actually the awareness itself. And that is an amazing realization. In other words, this is a dimension of consciousness that is, I call it, beyond thought. Sinking is a wonderful thing. Sinking is a very powerful tool for creating. However, if thinking is all we have and we love it for our identity in the mind,

then that is very limiting. If thinking is used as a tool, it's very powerful and empowering and can be very creative. But if thinking becomes self-serving, in other words, you're completely

identified with the stream of thinking that never, for most people, never stops. The old for the day,

sometimes they talk to themselves and you, you've done that you're not really enough." Yeah, all these things.

“So this is the most important thing in a person's life and this is why we're here is”

to experience this shift in consciousness so that increasingly, in glimpses at first,

but then increasingly, your sense of who you are is the space of awareness, the presence. Does that mean there's two of us? One could say that. There is one hand. I sometimes call it, on the one hand, you have your form identity. Your form is the most of physical body, which is the first thing people identify with. But really, it's not the physical body, it's the mental image of my body. It may be happy about or either the body can be a source of pride,

which can be a source of shame or anything in between. And so people identify with my body,

that's the first identity, form identification. And the next is the psychological form of the

all the things that I identify with in my past. The past makes up who I think I am all the past conditioning starting in childhood, the way it vibrates the culture in which you grow up, the family in which you grow up. All those things become part of your identity. So you have form, I call it form identity or the one that and everybody obviously has one. No matter how conscious you are, you continue to have a physical body until you don't. And you have a form,

identities, psychological form. But there is a deeper identity also that, and this is spiritual awakening,

“that is, I call it essence identity, your essence. And your essence is, if you want to put”

to be used the term, the awareness and be used the term presence. But another term we can use, what that really is, is consciousness. The essence of who you are is consciousness, the light of consciousness itself. And this is not, this is something to be experienced. You cannot understand, conceptually what it is that I'm talking about, unless you experience in this moment perhaps, what the only moment there is, unless you experience what that means that

you are a sentence in essence, you are consciousness, the space or the light of consciousness. Between two thoughts, for example, sometimes there's a thought that comes to an end and the other thought hasn't arisen yet, you have a gap of five seconds or ten seconds. And this is an experiential thing to realize yourself as consciousness is, it implies, that for a, at first for very brief instances, the mind becomes still, it subsides.

But you are still there. So when you are not, let's assume that you let go of any memory of your past, because you don't need it right now, let's, you don't remember your past at all, or your name or anything. And you're not thinking about future. In fact, you're not thinking at all. But you are aware, you're aware of your sense perceptions, but you're not interpreting sense perceptions. You're allowing sense perceptions to be. Now, who are what are you when you're not telling yourself

or who are what you are? Well, what are you without the story? And some shall be afraid of that, they're so attached to the story, they can't let go. But it's a wonderful practice for some people. They only let go when the story that they have, that they call their life becomes so painful,

that they can't stand it. And then sometimes they experience a breakthrough.

“Why do so many people hold on to their, their pain identity, their past story?”

For decades sometimes, why do they hold on to it so long when you might see their friends and family seeing that they're suffering and struggling, but they're unwilling to break

Sometimes, like you said, people will finally get so bad. They finally let that identity go.

“But why is it take an extreme horrible breakdown or pain for people to finally say, you know,”

this old story of mine, this old identity doesn't work for me anymore. I want to let it go and step into a new identity. Why is it so challenging for people? Well, it's, we all inherit, it goes back thousands of years in a collective consciousness or unconscious and humanity. We all inherit this kind of dysfunction, a mental, of course another word for that is the ego. It is the human ego, ego. Sometimes, when people use the term ego, they, it interpreted in different ways,

then they use the ego, the use by Freud, the Freud, the ego and other ego. But when I use the term ego, when it's used in a spiritual context, ego simply means complete identification with

“your mind, with the thinking, the mentally emotional makeup of you. That's ego is complete identification”

with that. And so that's totally ingrained every young being inherits that kind of dysfunction in your hand. So it's so hard to let go because it's so deeply ingrained in everybody, by the conditioning of your mind. And so some people need an enormous amount of suffering and even with that, some people don't awaken even then. They, I'm happy until they die. Or they die even at an early age because the, the body can't stand the other happiness anymore.

It isn't functioning properly anymore because the, the mental state interferes with the otherwise harmonious functioning of the body. So they make themselves distressed.

“Right. So we are faced with, it's an endless, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a challenging and”

wonderful thing to realize that your, your purpose, here, be, or be on any purpose that you might have on a personal level, which also has a function. But your deeper purpose is to, to evolve as a conscious being and to go beyond the ego here. So the consciousness evolves, because you're only, you're an expression of the universal consciousness. And current universal consciousness throughout the universe is awakening, we live in awakening universe. So gradually, life forms, in our case,

the year of life form becomes a big, it's to awaken into a higher level of consciousness. Yes. So the, this, so the, the essence here is realizing this, the possibility of delivering in this a different state of consciousness, where you're not necessarily

always immediately thinking and interpreting things. And if there's someone, if there's someone

watching or listening that is thinking themselves, you know what? I'm just feeling pain, psychologically, kind of often on consistently, and I haven't been out of figure out how to break free and, and feel a sense of true harmony internally, true peace. Yes, of course, there's challenges that are going to come our way as human beings, you know, as we continue to grow. But as a baseline, peace and harmony, and they just can't figure out how to get there. What type of application

or what do people need to be aware of and then take action on in order to start working towards inner peace and harmony? Right. Yes. Good question. Well, a good entry point is the present moment that see the present moment is the, I saw sometimes called it the portal into that state of consciousness that we call presence or awareness. Now the, the, the egoic mind is a college, the egoic mind is not really interested in the present moment, and it usually tries to obscure the

present moment. It's interesting. Right. Now other imagined moment, but not this, the future,

or the future. Yeah. Yes. It ignores the present moment, but the, the first, the first realization

for everything, and your relationship to the present moment determines how the future evolves,

but what we call future, which by the way, never arrives as it's going to arise. It's again the present

moment. Yes. So the, the realization that all you ever have, all that you can ever experience, is intrinsically linked with the present moment. It's inseparable from the present moment. Your entire life unfolds in and as the present moment that all the ever is the, the past, when the past

“happened, it was the present moment. It couldn't happen anywhere else. And when you remember the past,”

you remember in the present moment. The future, when the future comes, when tomorrow comes, it won't be tomorrow anymore. It will be the now. There was a British pop in London that had lived in London for many years. They had a sign on the bar that says free beer tomorrow.

And of course tomorrow and they're my comes. No, the side is always true. That's funny.

You go the next, they said no, tomorrow. That's tomorrow. Wow, that's funny. Yeah. So tomorrow, actually never comes. Of course, we need to make plans on a practical level. The future is indispensable. We need, we needed, we're just for us to get together here to talk, for a few days and time for collecting. So on a practical level, we cannot do without future, but on the deeper level, on the deeper side to the logical level, it's important to

realize that the future as such does not actually exist because all you can ever experience or have

is the praddle bond. Yes. So that's the starting point. It begins with the realization of the absolute primary importance of the present moments. This is all you have. So you might as well have a good relationship with the present moment because if your relationship with the present

“mold is dysfunctional, you'll entire life is dysfunctional. Right. So how do we,”

so how do if someone watching you're listening is saying, well, my present is really challenging right now? Yes. I've got a lot of debt. I feel I've got some sickness in my body and my health is not there. I'm going through divorce or breakup. The career is not as good as I want it to be. There's some type of pain in the present. How can I actually enjoy the present when I'm in breakdown everywhere? Yeah. Let's leave aside for a moment, physical pain. It's another story,

but the psychological pain that's there is again associated with certain situations. It's associated with your life situation, which may be problematic problematic on some level, whether it's financial or relationship or work situation or living situation. It's very or all health situation. It's very likely that at any given time, your life situation will be problematic on at least one of these levels. Right. And sometimes this is a lot of fun. It's true. You're fully, becomes really

problematic. You lose your money, you lose your job, your wife leaves you, or you lose your home. These things can do sometimes happen. So you have that. And to get in that sense, it's that's usually the, these life challenges, situational challenges are usually perceived as being part of the present moment, but they're not really the present moment. They are what is called what I call your life situation. But other than your life situation, you have something that I call your life.

“Life situation exists in time. Life is no. Never, not no. And since your life is now, you have to”

ask yourself, yes, I have all these problems. I don't know how I'm going to pay the rent, maybe. Or my relationship is problem. I have to, I'm in the middle of divorce, proceed. These all these things that happen to people. Or I've just be, be let go of my, or my company as co-laps, or whatever,

that are perceived is problematic, which sometimes are real, and sometimes are just imagination,

that again, we need to differentiate between when people say they're having big problems, sometimes they are just in the mind because they think of things that might grow wrong. And other times they're actually real challenges happening around you. But here again is what to sing or out the present moment, and not to ignore action that you might take or have to take in order to change certain situations, is there any action that I can take? That's a secondary question,

“it's important, but it's secondary. Primary question, I often ask people, what problem do you have”

at this moment? And then they usually start by saying, well, we're running out of money, or this, I'm living in this unpleasant, this place, what do you think? And so it's a little running out of money, it's not that this, what this, just this moment, right here and now, what problem do you have here and now in this moment? And then you look around, you just maybe become aware of your, that you're breathing and you look around and then you're reluctantly sometimes people have to admit,

well, okay, I'm ready to admit that at just this moment there isn't actually a problem. The next one there might be, but the next one is a game of this, of course, at this moment you may have a challenge that you immediately need to deal with, if you're going for a walk and you encounter a wild animal coming towards you, you don't say, I don't have any problems at this moment,

“that's a challenge that you need to deal with, but we wouldn't call that a problem. I mean,”

if I sometimes go for walks in the forest, it's with their bears here, so if you encounter a bear, that is not a problem, it's a challenge and you deal with it either, you run away or you don't,

whatever you do, you deal with it. The problem is, it lives in the mind. So, the, the, to get out of that,

is to give much more attention to the present moment and realize that in the present moment, the problem cannot survive, the more time in, in the present moment. The problem, any problem, you cannot survive in the present moment, because problem is a burden that you carry in your mind, your mental emotional field, that's what a problem is. The rest is situations and circumstances.

“Either you leave, they will loan, if there's nothing you can do, or you take some action,”

but they're, they're not a problem either you act or you don't act. And if you don't act, you take your attention into the present moment and see that it's actually okay. And I've had to, I've had to, I often get correspondence for people in prison. They in prison, and they, we are through my foundation, we are sending thousands of thousands of books to prisons, and so, and for prisoners to read, I often get communication people,

realize that in their prison cell, they realize that actually, I have no problem. In other words, they come to a complete alignment with the present moment. There's no longer entity that this should not be happening, because that's where the suffering arises. And of course, prison is a situation where you can't probably can't take much action, where you can try to escape, but you probably won't actually arrive right there.

You've got all saptance surrender. Yes. So there's always the actual may need to be taken,

but if no action is possible, then you come to place surrender. But it's positive surrender, negative surrender, positive surrender is an uncompromising, yes, to the present moment, an uncompromising, yes, to what is. That is a place of great in our power that arises with, yes, this is what is, that's the starting point. So you're not arguing with the isnes of things, because that's insane. You cannot argue with what is, and that the constant arguing with what is,

it loves enemies, it and the ego makes the present moment into an enemy. All right. Don't see,

can you see how insane that is? It will make the present moment into your enemy, because that's all you ever have. That means you make your whole life into an enemy,

“because your whole life is the present moment. Right. So I, I sometimes, it become,”

makes the present moment your friend, not your enemy, makes 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. So if your state of consciousness is negative, it is very likely that you will experience much more negativity in the so-called future. Right. If the present moment, if you're in the present moment, you're in the place of acceptance,

of course, you do acceptance. Then it's very likely that the, the present, the so-called future,

I saw, I always say so-called future, because the future as such doesn't exist, it always,

when it comes, it's now. Yes. Of the thought of you, which I raised the legs,

“your state of consciousness in the present moment. So that's really a very important realization.”

So that is how the absolute importance of your state of consciousness here and now, what is your state of consciousness now, rather than thinking that something else is more important than my state of consciousness. So in any situation, you're faced with any situation, what is the state of consciousness with which you face the situation? Is it ironestate of resistance or negativity towards the situation, because in any endeavor that you

undertally, inevitably obstacles will arise in anything. Yes. You want to create something new, come in many forms, sometimes in the form of human beings, we don't like it to do what you're doing or it can come in the form of other structure, structure, citer, into society, the rigid, structure. So, and you get all kinds of bureaucratic obstacles, or whatever obstacle that are. So, how do you face an obstacle? What is your state of consciousness when an obstacle arises?

Do you immediately become angry? Do you become or despondent or do you start complaining in your mind of people and talking about others or all of this situation isn't complaining? Or are you able to just immediately say, this is what it is? So you face the obstacle, not in a state of resistance, come from a state of power. This is what it is. And then when you're in that state of presence, they offer a right action arises spontaneously. Then you do, you find yourself doing the right thing,

because you're not making the situation into an enemy. And this is very important.

“If you want to achieve great things, and a huge obstacle for people is to start complaining”

and building up stress when things go wrong. In other words, things shouldn't be happening. So they become negative. They become unpleasant. They become unpleasant to people, colleagues, and people, they work with. And a lot of negative energy can build up in a company and so on. And that is not some of the most effective people in this world. There are perhaps a few. They don't work with negativity. They work immediately with a positive attitude. They don't make

the present moment into an enemy. They might never have heard any spiritual teaching,

so perhaps that is some kind of innate wisdom that they have, or maybe they plant his lesson in the past lifetime who knows. So they call this always start with the present moment. And again, what is, what, what, what, what problem do I have now? In the is there a problem year and now? Just this moment? Well, actually no, not really. Not the problem isn't here. The problem is in the mind, but it's not here. That's a place of power. And then you become

aligned with the, the power of now, the power of the present moment. So a, which is the power of

it's like the reflective light that like the moon reflects the light of the sun and the

“ego or it's like the little kind of consciousness. So it's only, it's not power, the irrational power,”

ego itself in the same way the national light and the moon starts to reflect it light. Wow.

Yeah, that's powerful. This is a bit fascinating. So far, I'm sure we could talk about, you know,

consciousness and suffering for hours, but I want to get to a few other concepts here. One of them being about the law of attraction, because I, you mentioned kind of secretnessities and seren celebrities and kind of this idea of when we align ourselves to consciousness and to more harmony, thoughts to more peaceful thoughts, and my experience, things just come, you know, the right things that I'm attending, it's the happened very quickly and unexpectedly. I would love to

“hear your thoughts on your definition of the law of attraction, but also maybe the three habits”

that you see people doing the most that hurt them from attracting effortlessly using the law of attraction. Right. Well, the main mistake, perhaps, that people make is not coming from a place of fullness, but kind of a place of leading us, and putting too much attention on what is the undesirable conditions that they want to get rid of, but, but, but mentally, well, all which continuously focusing on the undesirable conditions like not enough money, for example,

that's just the problem for many people. So it's used money, for example, then the law of attraction with money, how could we attract more wealth or financial abundance in our life using the

“law of attraction? Yeah. Well, first of all, is the acknowledged movement of abundance that is already”

here and now, and not focusing on the lack of abundance that is here now, which you could find by thinking about it, but to actually focus on where is the abundance that I can find here and now, and that is all around you, it is in nature. When you look at the abundance of nature, the abundance of multiplicity of life forms, the wonder of nature, the abundance of evil, or let's say you're in a city, you can look at appreciate all the things that you see around you. You don't need

to necessarily only to buy it, just appreciate it. So this first, the appreciation of the goodness

of life that is always all around you. Even if you have no money, there's still the goodness of life

is all around you. You see it all around you, the sunshine. I mean, the sun is the ultimate symbol of abundance, because it gives energy of itself almost a drug. I mean, eventually the sun will die, but as far as we are concerned, it's virtually eternal. It costs out energy continuously, and at some point, we will realize that even on the level of energy, the universe is infinitely abundant, so we will no longer need things that we're using now for a few different things. We

have access to other forms of energy that are more helpful, but the abundance is all around you. Let's say you walk your past in the city, you're walking past this lower shop. Do you look at Wow, such beauty, appreciation, even to seeing a beautiful man or woman or nice or even a beautiful car, all that's I love that. Not why don't I have that car? Why does he have that car? It's all

egoic, much narratives that make you unhappy to appreciate, no, nature, of course, is very powerful.

And then you appreciate the aliveness in your body that you're praising and you can actually feel that the, the your body, but many people can't feel that I call it the inner body of where this, you feel that you're, that every cell of your body is provided with the sense of lifeness, energy. And you can feel that that is abundance, there's abundance of life all around

gratitude. I call it more appreciation, your appreciation of the abundance of life that is

“always around you. That's a wonder of who's starting point. Okay. So you're not focusing on lack,”

you're focusing on abundance. And even even when you don't have any, if you don't have anything,

you can find a bun that's around you. Yes, always acknowledge it. The good things of life acknowledge,

but even seemingly insignificant saying, like when I look out of the window, I sometimes this tree is out here. I know I can look out this, I can see there's a slide brace and they branch this out, sweating anxiously in the wind, it's beautiful. And there's the tree in all its majesty and still that it's been there for 100 years and that wonderful. I don't need to own that tree. I mean, owning in that sense is ultimately a bit meaningless anyway. Yes, I own this house where

I'm right now, but at some point I'll be gone. And so what does it mean? The house with that, somebody else will own the house. Only secondary, I'm not saying to let go of ownership, sometimes you can give stability to your life on the practical level. But there's something more

“important. So this appreciation or if you want to call it gratitude, some people recommend,”

I think all percent that she has had for many, many years, a notebook or journal where she puns right down every day thinks that she's grateful for. And these are usually seemingly insignificant things, but it's important not to overlook that. And I don't think she's writing down

I'm grateful that I have a private jet or I'm grateful that I have a group on $5 billion in the

bank. That's right. She writes down the small things that I'm grateful for my garden. I'm grateful I get to plant a flower today. Yeah. I'm grateful that I get to go on a walk with my friends. I'm grateful that I woke up today. Yes. Yes. The next thing is the second thing, let's say, is easy to give energy to other people. Appreciation itself is already a sort of certain outro energy. When you appreciate this tree beauty, there's an energy connection

with the tree. The consciousness connects you with the tree. And kindness is part of giving a kindness to another person, not because you want anything from that person, but because it feels so good to have this sense of we could call it good will. That flows out of you to want another person. Even if you just hold the door open for somebody or it's a remark or they tell them what's lovely. I love your dress or whatever you say. If it's genuine or you're saying encouraging

word to somebody or to whatever it may be a smile to a smile, it's something. Even that is a form of giving. There's this connection with another kindness is a very powerful thing. So you are giving your notics. You're not at the more you give that it's in the law of attraction or nature is as you give it must come back to you in another form. But it doesn't work. It's a gift out of

“the obligation that you feel you should be giving or it needs to be the genuine sense of wanting”

to give and feeling how good it feels to give, not because mentally you feel you're always

need to help people because otherwise you don't think of yourself as a good person or something that's all mind stuff. But to experience how good it feels to be to give. So we have on the one hand appreciation, gratitude and appreciation, I could say that giving every day of whatever form and the next thing is that obviously Jesus already in one sentence one could say

that you want, believes that you already have it and it will be given to you. Yes, there's the key that the important thing is it did not say believe that you will have it. He said believe that you

“already have it. Now this may not be immediately clear to people how to do that. How do I believe”

that I already have it when I know that I don't have it. Right, right, right. How do you get that belief of having it before knowing, feeling, tasting, smelling the thing that you want? Yes, so you feel the saying it. It is already a mental reality in your mind. How do you feel now that you have it in your mind? How does it feel that this feeling is really where our manifestation lies, but what is that feeling? Because that feeling of having it already is feeling this deep sense of

satisfaction is really connecting with the deeper power within yourself. It is the power where

“all sense of a lifeness originates there. It's a deep sense of a lifeness that comes from consciousness”

itself. Right, you might be, it might differ from the person to person. One person might think, okay, what I want is a big house with an or an or an or an or an or an or an or an or whatever, and then you feel yourself, you're already there experiencing that. Another person might think, well, I want this to have this great company that does good things in this world and it's and I'm like, yeah, how does that feel? But you might find that the feeling is actually

basically almost the same whether your mind says, but the house, I'm looking at the ors in a

why or the other person says, well, this is the company that I'm well ahead of that it will in great sense in this world, the feeling is basically the same feeling and the feeling is a feeling of fullness or life. Yes, a completeness. That is power. So when you feel this feeling of fullness and then you associate it with a metal image, that is the power of manifestation there. But the feeling itself is beyond the mental image and is beyond whatever for you are able

to manifest in this world because that is the feeling that the inherent sense of a lifeness that comes when you go deeper into yourself and experience the the presence that you are

in this to to know yourself as the presence is inherently joyful and powerful to know yourself as

so and that is, you'll only face strong place of fullness, not from the place of lack, the fullness is already there and that also means if for some reason it doesn't manifest because not everybody's desires manifest. I mean, I don't know if it's still happening LA for example, if you go to any any good restaurant in LA, it's more than likely that the waiter waitress will be act as waiting for for their big praise. If it's just not possible for so many people to

have the big praise for it. No, they as actors. Some may do a few, they do, but most probably

“bones, but they are probably other breakthroughs, but perhaps a much more important than what the ego tells”

them is important. And to add to that, I love this, what you're sharing here because I want people to really feel this and understand this and embrace it because when we try to manifest from lack,

it's going to be this needy energy which was your first point that kind of kills the dream of the

love attraction. And when we manifest from a place of fullness, like you spoke of, like feeling a feeling of fullness, wholeness, excitement, abundance, joy inside of us. And if it doesn't happen, if that dream doesn't come to us in the next year or five or ten years, then we've lived a full rich life every moment, till that moment, like we've lived a full year of feeling excited and

partners, relationships, opportunities that maybe you couldn't dreamd of because the energy you gave into the world like you talked about. And I think that's the big point for me is the dream and the idea that you have maybe your ego wants, maybe you won't have it. But man, you'll live a great beautiful rich life in the process of pursuing it. Very good points. In other words, the journey

“is what matters. The arriving at some destination is the end-point, but it's secondary. It's a journey”

is always the journey. It's always now. That's what matters. And so sometimes what you wanted to manifest

doesn't happen, but something else manifests. They could be even better, in fact, been meant to be better. Much better does that. What did you have? That's just... Absolutely. I was one of the professional athlete and I played professional football for about a year and a half before I got injured. In the injury, I brought my wrist and I was wearing a cast and I had a surgery and I had a cast on for six months. It took about a year and a half for me to use my wrists again

from the injury. And during that time, I was in a state of extreme sadness and a loss and a grief of

“this identity that I once had and this dream that I once had that I was working so hard for my”

whole life to manifest, to create. And then I'll start in this injury, broke the my abilities to do that.

And I remember thinking, "What am I going to do with my life?" What's the point? 23, 24 years old, I'm like, "What am I supposed to do now?" And it led me into this journey that I'm on now of doing this interview series and pie cast for the last 10 years that I'd much rather have this life than the life of a professional athlete now. And sometimes like you said going back to the beginning of this, if we can accept and surrender in the positive way to see what good can

come and maybe challenging in the moment, but it's been a blessing since then.

“Yes, that's a lovely story. That's how it actually works. And another thing to mention is,”

let's say you do manifest what it is wanting to manifest. When you come from this place of fullness, you do not have, yes, you have a appreciation of what you have achieved, but you don't have the excessive attachment towards you have achieved. So let's say you are able to manifest that you have a house overlooking the ocean and you manifest it. There you have it. And one day you get home, you find your houses fall into the ocean. It's gone. Right, right. So there are

the old thing that you work to art for to achieve is suddenly gone, but this place of fullness, that enabled you to manifest that is still there. It's beyond all your forms. Yeah, and you feel full in life, maybe there's a moment of sadness during that, but if you're not attached to the physical things you've manifested, I'm sure if I lost my home, I feel like it's a sanctuary. It's a beautiful peaceful space, but I've lived in two better apartments for most of

my life, and I felt like those were peaceful places for me. And it's now, I'm sure I'd be sad for a minute, but then I could also create the sense of fullness in the next space. Exactly.

And I have this late sea, for a long time until my 30-second year, my main form of transportation

was except other than public transport was a bicycle. So I got my driver's license when I was 30, and my first car was 32, and that was a very cool one. What country is it? London and Cambridge, I lived in the same time. And I loved my bicycle. I just, I appreciate it. I loved something. I was just looked at it, standing there and I had to... Now, and then somebody gave me, I was poor at the time. Somebody gave me an order car, and I loved that. And then I was able to,

but I got to a little bit of Malay, I was able to buy the cheapest car I could find. It was both Lada, it's a rushing lake. They still make them, but they're a bit better now than they were

but it was very, very cheap when I bought this. And it never broke down. I loved that car. It never

broke down. I must admit very embarrassing on hills because he couldn't, you were holding everybody else. You had to get out and push it, yeah. Yeah. I loved that car, and the, and then I, eventually left England, and I sold it, a friend of Malay was interested. I sold it to them, and two or three weeks after I bought it, it broke down and couldn't care to repair it anymore. It was incredible. It's almost effes, because I have the kind of relationship, even with

chocolate inanimate objects. I think that even there, there is a dilemma of consciousness in everything.

“Really? That's how I stand things. There's a dilemma of consciousness. And when you have an”

tension and an appreciation for the thing that you're with the bike, the cheap car, it tends to take care of you when you take care of it with your energy, right? I had a similar experience when I moved to L.A. 11, 12 years ago. I didn't have a car in like 20s. I had like a $500 car that broke that after six months. And so I walked everywhere in Columbus, Ohio for about a year. And then I moved to New York City. I didn't need a car. And then I moved to L.A. And I bought a $4,000 car.

It was like a 1997 year old car. And probably one of the oldest cars on the road. I drove it every day. It was a $4,000 car. And for being at L.A., you know this world, that's kind of like,

“look down upon. It's like, oh, you don't have this nice new car. I drove for five or six years.”

I loved it. It was like a gallery from a place to place. It was comfortable. It was reliable. And I was happy with it. So, yeah, it took care of me. And I took care of it. Yes. And that's that's I feel

the same. And then later, then finally, I had the money, I bought an expensive car, which I still

have, what it's 16 years ago. It's not a kind of classic. And I love that as much as I love the bicycle. Right. Yes, it goes. Yeah, that's cool. It's the same. And it's not, it's many people, of course, haven't egoic identification with their car. But what we are talking about is very different. It's not that. It's not an egoic. If I had had an egoic, egoic identification with my cheap,

“rational car, my ego would have felt diminished because of people laughed at it. It's all up to”

this car. But I didn't mind. It was fine. I didn't have egoic identification. And I don't have any egoic identification with this more expensive classic car that I have now that 16 years old. But I still, I love it. I have a kind of relationship with it. If something happened to it, that I would let go. It's right. Right. Everything eventually leads you. And unless you leave it, it leads you. Yeah, that's interesting. That's beautiful. It was there anything else that you

think hurts people from the law of attraction and manifesting what they want. We talked about the neediness and coming from a place of lack. Yeah. Well, we talked to people on other saying, the, sometimes the whatever people want to manifest comes on an egoic place. The ego wants to, by achieving this or that, the ego wants to feel more powerful than before. It wants to. We haven't enhanced sense of identity. So it, by showing to other people that you have more than

others, it wants to show its superiority. The ego always looks for superiority. And so that that

could be, you may still, you may still get what you want. But your power will be greatly diminished if it's an egoic endeavor. But even with an egoic endeavor, sometimes, even that it could still work hard work and determines you might get it. But it won't make you happy. When you get it, very quickly, you will feel needy again. Interesting. Why is that? Why do you think, why do you, I'm sure you know a lot of very famous rich billionaires and people with lots of

money who are still suffering an art happy inside once they got the thing they wanted. Why is it that people suffer and struggle when they have lots of money and have the

nothing because the ego is a sense of lack, sense of not good enough, not enough yet. So it's never

“enough for the ego. And if you have everything that the world tells, so you really should be happy”

now because you've got and I've made people like that. They've got money with you, which amounts of money. They've got fame and retortation and the private judge, they've got can to do anything go anywhere at any moment. And that's can be particularly that counterproductive because you cannot fool yourself, the ego cannot fool itself by saying, when I get this, I'll be happy. Because then you can, you can still postpone, ego can say, once I achieve that, I'll be happy. But the person

already has everything, he or she cannot say that anymore. Because so you have no way. There's no excuse anymore. And because you have everything and you're not happy. So then this is very often

“people then start taking drugs or engage in other kinds of seeking sensory satisfaction through”

substances or going from one relationship into another, having sex or whatever they do, because they can buy anything they want and they get pretty more and more unhappy. Because they do

all the ego, it's there and the ego will never be satisfied, no matter what you achieve.

In the course in miracles it says, I don't know if you're in the, it says, you will always know when the, the ego was at work when once you've achieved it, it hasn't satisfied you, that was legal. So there's another, there's another saying that goes, there are two ways of being unhappy, one is not getting what you want, the other one is getting what you want. Then it refers to the ego. So sure. Some people are unhappy because they don't get what they want

and the others are unhappy because they get everything they want. But it's still ego. What do you think, how do you, how does someone be happy while they're on the path of trying to manifest, you know, more in their life, more a better relationship or better qualities that they have in the current relationship, more career success, money, things like this, how can they be happy, no matter what happens? It comes to you or it doesn't.

Happy that starts with the alignment with the present moment. It can only arise if you're aligned with the present moment. I sometimes call that the vertical dimension of life,

“which is now and then there's a horizontal dimension of life is where it's past and future and”

you have a goal, you're working towards that spine, you have the horizontal dimension and the vertical dimension is the present moment. The horizontal dimension is the dimension of becoming, you become good at something or you acquire something, you become something, there's an evolutionary process at work and that obviously has its place, it's there. But if you're too, if you're exclusively focused on becoming and achieving and to training and

acquiring, you're always trapped on the horizontal and you can never really enjoy the present moment

because the present moment is the vertical dimension here now, inseparable from the now. The cross, the symbol of the cross, one could interpret as, which is an ancient, it predates Christianity, the symbol of a cross can be interpreted as an entity to the intersection between the horizontal and vertical dimension of life. That is the, it's what the importance and is to to discover the dimension, the vertical dimension, which is the power of the, of the now,

the present moment and then the horizontal dimension works actually works better and you're not dependent on it for your ultimate satisfaction. You're not dependent on any kind of achievement, attainment or whatever it is that the horizontal dimension for your art, it may give you some kind of satisfaction but not the deepest satisfaction. The deepest satisfaction is in

who or what you are as consciousness itself, presence here and now, and in other words you

“could say, you sense the being of you, you sense that you are and there is an enormous power”

there that has no form. You can't interpret it, it's, it's the power of a life as itself here and now, it goes far beyond what you are as a person. The person exists on the horizontal dimension, but there is a deeper dimension to who you are, that is only discovered in the vertical dimension, and the vertical dimension you are already complete. There is nothing to achieve there, you're already fully complete. That's so hard for people to, that's so hard for people to comprehend,

they don't feel complete. Of the horizontal, you're not completely complete and you'll never be complete.

Because no matter what you achieve, if you become good at one thing, you'll know it's something

“that's always the world of polarities of the horizontal dimension, that even I find that still,”

you achieve great things before I used, I've been teaching, awakening for many, many, many years. In the past, I had intimate groups of 10, 20 people. Now, there are hundreds or thousands of these often come. I don't have the close relationship with individuals anymore, it's just, I'm reaching many more people, but I've lost this closer connection with the people

that aren't teaching. There's always a prize to pay, on the other hand, I'm reaching far more people

than before, but there's always a prize to pay, even privacy, I'm not a great celebrity, but I do wherever I go, people say, "Oh, I can't." And so, the longer it happens, it's wonderful, I love the connection that I feel, but I do lose privacy because, I'm not feeling much, what's the eating, what's he doing, why is he drinking coffee or whatever? I thought he was fearful, yeah. Yeah. Well, you lose, I'm saying, there's always something, there's always gain

and loss, the world of polarities, and the becoming, the becoming dimension, you become, again, positive and negative side. On the one hand, you can become stronger, as you grow up, you become, well, you can become more knowledgeable, you become well-seared, but eventually, the becoming becomes negative, because then your body becomes weaker, because you get old. Interesting, maybe you'll lose something, and then you become,

whoops, they're becoming, there's the polarities of the rate on the horizontal dimension, but it has, it's, without the access to the vertical dimension, thus it can satisfy your truly purely on the horizontal dimension. So, the vertical dimension is present moment to realize that the power of the present moment that is inseparable from who are what you are in your essence, the power of you, and that is, that is not an egoic thing, because this you,

far transcends who are what you are as a person, it connects you with the identity of the universe itself. The, this is Emily, it's the IAM without adding anything to it. IAM, in the Old Testament, Prophet asked, "Me, it's got, what is your name?" When God says, IAM, the IAM, that is a very deep statement, that is being this itself, being this itself, and you can feel that, you can sense that, yet and now, when, for moment, your mind subsides, you're not sinking

anymore, without making an effort, you're not sinking anymore, and who are you, without any sort, you can't explain what it is, but you can sense that there is a light of consciousness, there is a presence, right, in the inherent sense of the lifeless. Sometimes people can feel it with the ink, with the entire body, the entire body is pervaded by a sense of the lifeness.

“You are, that's the ancient Greeks, already said, that knows, I self, as the most important”

thing in life, know, I self, and let request to the deepest knowing, knowing yourself, as consciousness,

connect it to that which transcends the person, right? In other, if you want, if you, for those

“people who are comfortable with, say, stick language, you could say, that connects you to God,”

that is a deeper connection to the source of all life, you're connected to that, I see the consciousness that is, that you share with every human being, when you look at another human being, you're interacting with another human being, on the one level, you have the personality, horizontal dimension, the conditioning, mentally, emotionally, you're interacting with that person, but you're also interacting with consciousness, which is beyond the person. And when you

can sense the consciousness that you are, is altered the consciousness that the other person is,

you can sense the oneness of that consciousness, and that sensing of oneness is ultimately

what did the deep meaning of love, the love is to recognize the other as ultimately, one with what you are, one, the recognition, I would say the love is the recognition of oneness, with it, it's not the egoic love that is, I need you, don't you dare leave me because if you do I'll hate you, that's not that, let's say egoic so-called love, but the real love is to recognize

“yourself in the other, but in order to do that, you need to first recognize yourself in yourself,”

be on the person. So, and that that connects you with other humans in a very different way,

this sense of connectedness, that you're there. Yes, it's the one, the word for it, what what you're

this been, there's a good way of those out from you to once others. Even others that you might only meet casually for a few seconds, you can sense, you're a good, an archer of good, well, then connectedness and feels so good to recognize, there is a human being, or my interpretation of human being is the English language doesn't have a word that refer to both men and women. So, you have to say you are in being, in German you have a word, men, which could, is a woman being,

“could be either men or woman, but in English you have to say you are in being, and I love that”

because the human dimension is the person that lives on the horizontal dimension. The being is the essence of who you are, and it's our destiny to recognize our being, which is far beyond the person, and then you become, this is the human, and this is the being, and then you are true you're and being when you realize the being of yourself because then you're, wow, you fancy it in others too, and then you can laugh others. That's the beauty of it. You mentioned love just

now, I'm curious about you, when do you feel the most loved? When you're going about your day, when do you feel the most loved personally? I don't make differentiate between love and being loved. It's all one, so I feel that the connection is there, the moment I interact with somebody, there is that connectedness, and sometimes people respond, something within them responds back, and then you get the same energy back. They may not know why,

but let's say, let's say you're in a restaurant, and I'm in the restaurant, and I'm ordering the waiter waitress comes, and so you have, on the one hand, on the human level, you are the guest or the clarion, the restaurant, and this person is the server, that's the human level, you have your identity, but is that all there is? No, the server is, this is only a temporary function, it's not the real identity of this human being, and I'm not, my identity is not to be a client

or guest of this restaurant, it's a temporary thing, so if I able to recognize the being in this human, the human is the server, but behind that there's a being, and when I look at this person, and I'm, there's a, really, let's see if I can describe it, or experience it, there's a while, the person talks to me, there's a still presence, at this and through this,

works, so I can sense their beingness, and that is the connection, and then it sometimes happens,

“they can feel something, they feel acknowledged, they may not be able to interpret that in it,”

well they may miss it, without you saying anything, without you saying anything, no, it's nothing to say, often it means that they, they like you, they feel attracted to you, they love you as a person, and they're, but they like to be in your presence, they, they're positive response, and that is what could say, that is, laugh coming back at you, so it, you send it out,

and you don't always get it back, sometimes the person may be so deeply trapped in the ego that nothing

much gets through, and let's, that's fine, that's where they're at at the moment, but it still feels good to, to feel this emanation, but very often when the emanation

“is reflected and then comes back and then you feel loved to the, of course, usually the other”

person doesn't understand it at deeper level, doesn't understand that what they love in you is not the person, it's something like that, and that connects both of you, so I feel, it's always

the process, it's always mutual, I feel able, when you love a flower, even the flower,

there's a certain, there's much, some little mystical, but there's a, there's a certain response that you get, of course, what it's, sometimes when I recognize and appreciate the beauty of the tree of flower, this is similar because even the, the flower, the tree is a manifestation of consciousness at a different vibrational frequency from a human, so everything is a vibration of consciousness, I just take in temporary form, so that the flower, the tree, are also

a manifestation of consciousness, and when I recognize it, I appreciate the beauty of the flower, the tree, we, there, there's a sense of one, this and, and at that moment, the tree can sense that it is being recognized and it becomes aware of its own beauty through you, so you redeem nature, you give, you add something to nature, I recognizing the sacredness and beauty of nature, you add something to nature, and then we can say nature loves you back too,

you can say that, so I sometimes recommend people to go to a tree and allow the tree to teach you stillness because the tree is there, it's deeply rooted in the earth and the earth's branches, and it's very still, it might have been there for 100 years, 200 years, it's very, it's still you approach it and nature can teach you anything in nature can teach you that the stillness connect you with the dimension that's beyond egoic consciousness. Wow, this is

beautiful like our, is there anything that you struggle with these days personally? Is there, you know, you've done this work and practiced it and audit for so long? Is there anything you struggle or suffer with in your own life that is still a challenge? Oh, there's, yeah, there are challenges, I'm not going to deal with it, practical things, so much anymore of life, I don't find that in short things, and so on, can feel us a bit of a burden sometimes,

but the humans are, but otherwise there's no suffering, I don't have periods of suffering at all, it's gone, the humans are just being and doing, it's another way of putting it, being dimension is a vertical, the doing dimension is a horizontal, the two I'm

“important, some humans are more drawn towards doing, creating manifesting, yes, others are more”

drawn towards being, it's appreciating, what is, and may not have many goals to achieve, there might be happy doing that, God, they've sealed them on, and every

middle, it's very hard to be completed in the middle, you're totally balanced between being and doing,

“I'm always more inclined to, I'm in the being dimension, and for a few years, when I was younger,”

I experienced a kind of awakening, I was kind of so much in the being, I mentioned that I lost interest in any kind of doing for a few years, it was so the present moment was so joyful and beautiful, and I had no money, nothing, or why I had no home, but it was lovely, big 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 to be, just to be, to contemplate nature, or just to sit in a room,

and just be, but I'm able to do, because what I wrote to the books, I do teachings, I travel, so I give talks and retreats, so I am doing, I'm able to function on that level, but the irony is that all of my doing is in the service of teaching being, that's great, so you'll do for a week,

and then you'll like, I'm able to go beef for a month, yeah, that's amazing, I can't, I want to be

respectful of your time, I have two final questions, kind of, click your questions for you, but before I ask those, I want people to get your books, again, the power of now is one that I read many years ago, that I highly recommend to everyone, and also this book is well, which has become

“more popular in the last few years, I feel like it's got this research, even though I think it's 15 years”

15 years ago, you wrote it, I think. In fact, Oprah said, Oprah said, if you're only read one book in your life, read, we didn't do us. And you are awakening to your life's purpose, so make sure you guys

get both copies, start in whichever one you want, but both from our amazing, also if people want

to connect with you, they can go to your website, we'll have everything linked up as well and here, and you're starting to get more content on social media, so make sure to follow @accardover on YouTube, and all the different platforms that you're on. And I really want to acknowledge you before I ask these final two questions at card for your level of service. Again, you could be 24/7

“and sitting the woods and in the room and being a happy human being, just being, you've already”

done so much for humanity with your work, your message, workshops, and everything you've done. So I acknowledge you for continuing to be a service, continuing to serve when you choose to, when you show up, when you deliver, when you're coming on here and doing this, I know this is going to reach millions of people over time and impact them profoundly. So I'm very appreciative and grateful to you for being a messenger of love, generosity, of kindness, and teaching those who are

struggling and suffering, how to get back into alignment of who they truly are so they can be peaceful and in harmony in the now. So I'm really one of the acknowledge you and I appreciate you for taking the time. These two final questions, first one is, is a hypothetical scenario

a question. I call this the three truths. So I'd like for you to imagine. I even though you never

imagine the future that much because you're always in the now, but I'd like for you to go there for a moment and imagine you get to live as long as you want to in this realm of whatever reason the last day. And for whatever reason in this hypothetical question, all your message is gone. It's got to go away through to the next place or it's just not in this world that I'm more. So your books, this interview, any workshop you've done online, it's, we don't have access to it.

But you get to leave behind three lessons to the world, three truths that you know are true for you. And this is all we would have to be reminded of your messages. What would be those three truths for you? Well, ultimately the, the truth, the ultimate truth is is one, and so you can that out of the one, so you can extrapolate and several other truths, lay a rise out of one. The ultimate truth is, uh, realize who are what you are, realize that you are in essence,

not a person, you are consciousness, your manifestation of universal consciousness, you are the

itself briefly, but you are far beyond realize who are what you are beyond the person,

so let's see ultimate truth. And realize that you, you are not the ego that is discovering who are what you are not and realize the possibility of living without suffering, the suffering that's created by the human mind, the, uh, the possibility of being free of suffering, free of unhappiness, and the way towards that is radical acceptance of the isnes of the present moment, though on radical acceptance of the isnes of now, that will take you to a deep place of realization

“of who are what you are and you are not the ego, realize who you are not is important part of”

the sort of negative realization, who you are not, once you realize who are what you are ultimately not, then who are what you are, emerges naturally. That's beautiful, uh, final question for your account of what is your definition of greatness? Well, of course, as you know, one can give many, many definitions, according to one's level of consciousness, but at the deepest level,

greatness is again, when you go to the deepest level, the answer is always saying by the way,

“greatness is to, uh, to live consciously, to embody consciousness in this lifetime,”

to embody the unconditioned consciousness in this lifetime. That is greatness and then other things arise out of the due effect the world in many different ways by living as consciousness and consciously rather than as an egoic entity. So then you begin to change the world, even if you don't say, I am going to change the world, it happens organically and naturally, so at the end,

the way in which you experience the world is always a reflection of your state of consciousness.

So, you begin to experience a different world when you are aligned with the, I could I call the unconditioned consciousness that is who or what you are in your essence. That is the greatness is to have fulfilled your purpose in this incarnation on this earth and that is to be part of the evolving consciousness of the universe. That is greatness to have fulfilled your purpose and the all the outer conditions are secondary. And you coach theoretically,

you could have fulfilled your purpose, even in the prison cell, but you come to this realization. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and it inspired you on your journey towards greatness. Make sure to check out the show notes in the description for a full run-down of today's

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