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Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Essential Teachings Special: Accept Each Moment as if You Had Chosen It

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Eckhart talks with a live audience about the process of becoming aware. When challenges arise, he says go with it. Learn to accept each moment as if we had chosen it. He explains that if you do this, what at first looks like an obstacle then becomes an opening into transcendence.

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Accept each moment as if you had chosen it.

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In this episode, Eckhart talks with a live audience

0:07.0

about the process of becoming aware.

0:09.0

When challenges arise, he says, go with it.

0:12.0

Learn to accept each moment as if we had chosen it.

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Then what looks like an obstacle becomes an opening into transcendence.

0:29.6

So first of all, I'd like to ask you as you sit there to become aware of yourself.

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Now, what does that mean?

0:36.6

Usually, to become aware of yourself,

0:40.8

you would go into thought

0:43.5

because what you usually identify with as yourself

0:52.4

consists of thought, plus some emotions that accompany the thoughts.

1:01.2

So usually when people refer to themselves, myself, they're talking about the me that consists of thought and emotion,

1:16.6

mental-emotional entity. And so when I ask you to become aware of yourself,

1:24.6

you would usually make reference to your name and your history, your

1:30.8

general life situation. But if you look at it more closely, your name, your history, and your

1:38.9

general life situations right here and now only exist as thought.

1:45.0

Your entire life situation, which includes your relationships,

1:53.0

all the things from your past that have brought you into your present situation,

1:59.0

your health situation, or other aspects of your life situation, your health situation,

2:01.7

or other aspects of your life situation,

2:04.6

whether it's great at the moment or dreadful at the moment,

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