Liberation through stillness. In this episode, Eckhart leads a meditation and then answers questions from a live audience.

He says the most important thing to achieve in our lifetime is stillness. Without it, we feel frustrated, angry, and discontent.

No relationship or personal success ever satisfies us because life lacks depth.

He says stillness is the answer.

That sense of aliveness we feel when we're free of thought.

Good afternoon, good evening, good morning,

wherever you may be, beautiful, sunny, early afternoon,

and whatever time it may be where you are, it's still the present moment.

And the strange thing is, it may well be that you watch this or listen to this when it's no longer

live in the conventional sense of the word, but in a deeper sense, it's always live.

Even if you listen to this, watch this, 20 years from now, which is possible, then

hello, welcome to the present moment, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, and you will still be

watching this in the only space there is, which is the space of now, and what that is is the space of consciousness,

timeless consciousness. And that dimension is realized within you as stillness. Stillness is to be

conscious without thinking,

or it could also mean to be aware of yourself

as the underlying consciousness even when you are thinking,

thinking, doing, going from here to there, being active.

Now if you ask me, what's the most important thing for me in this lifetime, in my life,

if I had to say what is the most important thing for you to achieve, discover, realize in this lifetime or any lifetime, I would say it is stillness.

To find that dimension of consciousness within you, connect with the stillness,

realize that there is a realm of stillness in you, and if you don't find that, you don't realize that, then you are condemned to

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