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Oprah's Super Soul

Eckhart Tolle Session: The Awakening of Consciousness

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.632.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In a live appearance at UCLA’s Royce Hall, New York Times best-selling author and spiritual thought leader Eckhart Tolle explains the awakening of consciousness by taking on one of Oprah's signature questions: What do you know for sure? "I know for sure that I'm sitting on a chair," Eckhart says. "That's the most surface level of things. I know for sure that this is a table." His answer is simple enough, but Eckhart delves further. Even these seemingly simple truths are not concrete, he says. Eckhart goes so far as to say that we can't know for sure that life is not a dream, a question that has been posed by many philosophers. Eckhart explains the importance of becoming more present in our daily lives and why the ability to become still is essential.

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0:00.0

I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

0:07.5

the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.

0:16.0

Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right

0:23.1

now.

0:24.1

I'm bringing on the Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen and Bono. All rolled into one. This is the guy.

0:38.5

Now, when you see him, you're going to go, really? But he is the rock star of the spiritual movement.

0:52.5

He is the rock star. Eckhart Toly is the person who embodies and is literally walking presence.

1:03.6

So, when I first read Eckhart Toly's book, A New Earth, everybody of course had read The Power of

1:09.6

Now. I read A New Earth, New Earth, Life-changing. I would have to say, central, most important book I

1:17.4

ever read. I mean, if you want to read one book in your life, I would say A New Earth is it. His

1:24.0

teaching and his definition and understanding of EGLE turned the concept inside out for me and for

1:31.3

a lot of other people who followed us on those A New Earth lessons. We actually broke the web back

1:38.4

in 2008 when we first did those 10 lessons of A New Earth. His writings allowed us to understand

1:45.7

for the first time, actually. Didn't you guys, what EGLE was? Because we always thought it meant just

1:50.4

being arrogant. So, he calls his session the Awakening of Consciousness. Now, that's it. That's

1:58.9

what we're here to do. The Awakening of Consciousness from the Rockstar himself, Eckhart Toly.

2:20.1

Nice to be here and now, as you can see, this speaker must be really dynamic. They had to bring out

2:28.0

a chair for him. A few days ago, a question that Oprah likes to ask came to mind. I'm sure you've

2:41.2

heard it. Then the question is, what do you know for sure? What do I know for sure? She asked me

2:51.0

that question a few years ago. I don't remember what the answer was because it came out of the present

2:55.6

moment. But it's a very interesting question. It can take you to a very deep level as it can be

3:05.7

answered on many levels and what may be true on one level may not be true on a deeper level.

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