Hello podcast listeners, I am truly delighted to bring you this weekly series from

someone I believe is one of the great spiritual thinkers of our time.

Eckhart Toei, these essential teachings by Eckhart will help you learn how to

quiet your mind and understand the difference between your ego and your true

self. If you're interested in living a fully present life Eckhart essential

teachings can put you on a path to discover an enlightened state of

consciousness. I know this one thing for sure Eckhart Toei and his teachings

have certainly enhanced and transformed my life. I hope listening to Eckhart as

a podcast will create a riveting, instructive and spiritual experience for

you all at the touch of your fingertips. In this podcast Eckhart explains how

challenging times have the potential to awaken us whether it's political

appeal, the pandemic or a personal crisis. We all know it's pretty rare for

people to evolve when life is going well. Eckhart says that it's actually

adversity not comfort that pushes us to grow spiritually and awaken to the

deeper dimension of who we really are.

Welcome. So we're here to address the topic of living in challenging times, how to

deal with sometimes extreme challenges, how to stay conscious when challenges

arise. It is of course true to say that most of the time life is experienced

for most people as challenging although there are sometimes interludes when

everything seems to be going very well. According to plan good things happen, you

can relax, be happy, perhaps you fall in love or you're just getting married

where you got a promotion, you're doing well professionally. A child is born,

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