Manifesting our want to needs.

In this podcast, Eckhart talks about fulfilling our desires and what we can do to make that happen.

However, he cautions against becoming dependent on external circumstances for our happiness.

He says attachment to the outcome can actually become a barrier.

Eckhart believes we must visualize that what we want

is already ours and that ultimately the external world is inseparable from our state of consciousness.

Hi. Hi. Thank you. My question was, as you practice presence and conscious living, the definition

between wants and needs changed. And sometimes it can get confusing. And so I was wondering if you

could elaborate for us a simple way to define between egoic wants and needs versus

a divine need that's calling forth to be manifest through us.

Right.

To you, what is the, how do you see the difference between wanting and needing something?

Or do you see that they're very similar or are they fundamentally different?

How do you see that?

Fundamentally, from my religion, they were very different.

You know, needs were food, water, shelter, everything else was, but I live in Las Vegas

and I have five kids and a pool really feels like a need and not a want. But they did change

where I realized there's a lot more up to me than I thought about what my

needs are to, I'm fine if nothing changes, I'm happy and content and fulfilled, and yet, you

know, that would be nice kind of thing versus I need this to be happy.

I need this to...

That's a good starting point.

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