Eckhart Tolle Part 2: The Transformational Power of Learning to Live in the Now

Eckhart Tolle was 28 and on the brink of ending his life through suicide, when one night a thought occured to him: if he couldn’t bear to live with himself, was there more than one of him? Don’t msis Eckhart discussing the negative self-talk we hear in our heads, why science doesn’t know what thought is, why so much of our thinking has to do with wondering about what’s going to happen next, and why you are not your thoughts.

Show Notes

Eckhart Tolle, author of bestselling book, The Power of Now, was 28 and on the brink of ending his life through suicide, when one night a thought occured to him: if he couldn’t bear to live with himself, was there more than one of him?

“At that moment an inner separation happened between my unhappy self and my deeper sense of I or beingness, which I now call consciousness itself.”

In this episode of Into The Magic Shop, Eckhart discusses the negative self-talk we hear in our heads, why science doesn’t know what thought is, why so much of our thinking has to do with wondering about what’s going to happen next, and why you are not your thoughts:

“If your consciousness is the vast ocean, and thinking is the waves and ripples on the surface of the ocean, and every wave and ripple has a very short lived life, it's very fleeting like every thought, but it pretends to have an independent existence.”

Download and listen to Eckhart today, and join the thousands of individuals who have gained insights into their own lives, transforming them for the better.

“Is it a revolutionary statement to say there's only ever the present moment, that's all you ever have, not the future, and not the past, you can never experience anything in the future. In that sense, the future will never come. Because when it comes, it's the present. There's only ever this moment.”

On today’s podcast:

• What thoughts actually are
• Why we don’t need to spend hours meditating 
• How to live in the now
• What we can learn from a dog’s sense of being

Links:

• Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now

What is Into the Magic Shop?

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, many were overwhelmed with stress, anxiety and depression. While this epidemic of stress has been growing over the past decade, it has been exacerbated by the pandemic and the divisive nature of political discourse. As a result, many people feel disconnected, inauthentic, and unhappy, while questioning the source of their unhappiness when they presumably have “everything”—an absence of compassion, for oneself and others, is often the source of the problem.

Many of us don’t understand the nature of self-compassion nor the power of compassion to improve our lives and alleviate our suffering. By entering the “Magic Shop”, Jim will share his wisdom and introduce a variety of techniques to change the course of one’s life and share his own lessons learned through the exchange of untold stories of his guests. He will interview authors and experts in the fields of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, spirituality and religion, as well as individuals with unique points of view. He will also engage his listeners by answering their questions and also at times interview listeners who are willing to share their own stories of challenge and hardship.