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Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (Chapter 1)

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.64.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Oprah Winfrey and one of the great spiritual thinkers of our time, Eckhart Tolle, present their 10-part series on Eckhart’s ground-breaking book, “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose.” These insightful and uplifting podcast conversations give you a chapter-by-chapter class on practical teachings to help you discover an enlightened state of consciousness. You’ll learn how to quiet your mind, get your ego in check and live a fully present life. If you're seeking a more loving self, community and planet, “A New Earth” has the tools to begin your transformation. In the premiere episode, Oprah and Eckhart discuss consciousness, presence and purpose as they relate to chapter one of “A New Earth.” Eckhart also answers questions from people who are reading along in the book.

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Hello to all you podcast listeners. We're bringing you something really special.

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One of the great spiritual thinkers of our time, Eckhart Toley and I, are giving you a chapter by

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chapter class on what I believe is his groundbreaking masterpiece. Eckhart's best-selling book,

0:17.1

A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. This book resonated with me in such a profound way.

0:25.4

I truly think that it's the most important book I've ever read.

0:30.0

It's changed the way I live my life so much so that I always have a copy on my nightstand,

0:35.6

because I constantly give myself a refresher course. And now more than ever we need to create

0:40.8

what Eckhart calls a new earth, inside our personal lives, in our communities, and the world.

0:48.1

Give it a listen, and over 10 episodes, you too will be opened up and learn how to quiet your mind,

0:56.0

get your ego in check, live a fully more present life. We're talking deep, big picture,

1:03.0

even delving into consciousness and the reason why we're all really here. My greatest hope is that

1:08.2

Eckhart's quiet wisdom and patient teachings will resonate with you as they have with me.

1:14.7

Each podcast episode will start with my conversation with Eckhart about a chapter,

1:19.9

and then Eckhart answers questions from people who are reading along in the book.

1:23.8

So I encourage you to get your own copy of a new earth awakening to your life's purpose,

1:31.1

and join us for a thrilling enlightening and spiritual experience.

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Now in this first class to kick things off, Eckhart teaches some very practical ways for us to

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learn how to be more present, because as he says, things, this is his quote, things cannot give

1:51.6

you happiness, because happiness comes from a deeper place within you that you can only access

1:59.6

in the present moment. I'll tell you, this chapter I believe is going to make you want to get

2:05.7

outside and see the world through a different lens. I know it did that for me. I started seeing

2:10.7

everything differently. So here we go, week one, a new earth. Of course I'm honored to introduce

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