Dismissing the demand that life should be perfect. In this episode,

Eckhart continues his talk with an audience in Budapest explaining that if we're

waiting for the world to make us happy in the form of the right person, place, job, or situation, we will probably

wait for a very long time.

He says our expectations for the perfect life usually lead to deep disappointment.

He explains life is fragile and cannot possibly meet all of our demands.

He says we ask ourselves what is the world here of war if it's not to make us happy?

Eckart explains that every person is like a seed of awakening consciousness.

Life's challenges push the seed to sprout.

Eckhart implores that we must learn to drop the demand that life should be perfect.

It's in the nature of every life situation to You can't have it all going perfectly, every aspect of your life

situation. What you're doing great suddenly financially and then your wife leaves you or your body is very healthy but something else goes wrong

You lose your job or something happens to your child somebody close to you

Something problematic or in there. It is good to strive to make your life better, of course it is.

You do your best.

And that's perfectly fine,

and you should continue to do your best

so that your life situation can improve.

It's a wonderful thing to do.

So you focus, what can I do, what you do?

Wonderful.

The only thing that does not work is to look for yourself in your life situation

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