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Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Essential Teachings Special: Discovering Our Deeper Essence

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Discovering our deeper essence.

0:03.0

In this episode, Eckhart reveals why becoming aware of the present moment is synonymous with connecting to the deeper dimension of who we are.

0:12.0

He explains how we go beyond the personality to reach our transcendent self.

0:18.0

Eckhart describes how we're not just human doings, we are human beings.

0:23.6

He says our primary mission is to integrate the two. He believes this is the most important

0:31.0

discovery we can make in our lifetime. Welcome, everybody. Before we get to the questions, that's just becoming aware of the

0:45.4

present moment. No need to call it a meditation. Just more simple than that, just becoming aware of the present moment, not only becoming

1:01.8

aware of the content of the present moment, what I call the content of the present moment is whatever appears in your awareness.

1:16.9

You may have perhaps certain emotions or feelings right now. It's possible. Perhaps something that's lingering, something it happened earlier today, or who knows,

1:28.3

or something that might happen, and this has a little bit of residue,

1:32.3

or whatever it may be, whatever emotion, anxiety or sadness.

1:37.3

But again, if that's, if you sense anything like that, that's fine too, That's also what appears or any thoughts that come in.

1:50.1

Also, they appear in your awareness, of course. So the present moment is what appears to your sense perception and your inner perception of thoughts and feelings.

2:07.6

But that's not all.

2:10.6

But that's already a good step in the right direction to become aware of whatever appears in this moment.

2:18.3

Become more aware of your sense perceptions and become a way of your thoughts,

2:23.3

oh, or a fully feeling, more physical feeling in the body.

2:29.3

That's good. But becoming way of the present moment is deeper than that. You're not only aware of what appears in your field or space of awareness.

2:43.0

This is more subtle now.

2:46.0

You can also become aware of that space of awareness itself.

2:53.7

That is the awareness that makes everything else possible.

2:58.3

It's much more subtle.

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