Distinguishing between your life and your life situation, in this episode, Eckhart jokes

with an audience about getting a call from the Star Wars galactic fleet.

He then turns to practical matters when he discusses returning home after being away

on a retreat.

He says, we all have a life situation which includes relationships, work, finances and

physical health, all burdens we carry with us even when we're on vacation.

Eckhart cautions against having our consciousness completely absorbed by problems.

He says, our real life is in the present moment which should only unfold in the here and now.

Not in the past nor in the future.

He believes the profound difference between our life and our life situation is where our

awareness remains.

All questions have been coming in.

I got my phone here to just in case there are any more questions coming in.

Or I might get a call from the commander of the galactic fleet.

I distinguish between your life situation and your life.

Life situation is whatever your past that has brought you here, all the circumstances

of your life that at the moment are kind of temporarily on ice, so to speak, because

you're here on a retreat, but then of course when you go back home you will re-enter the

circumstances of your life, everybody has a set of circumstances, relationships, work,

finances, home situation, physical health, so you re-enter your life situation and of

course I don't know to what extent each one of you have been while you were here carrying

perhaps the burden of your life situation, even here in a totally different environment.

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