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Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Essential Teachings Special: Releasing Barriers to Presence

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Original Air Date: September 16, 2021 In this podcast, Eckhart talks with a live audience about clearing away the obstacles to presence. Eckhart says the entire universe is awakening and is in the early stages of something vast. We are a part of that. To be spiritually awake, means releasing barriers created by the mind. Eckhart says while the ability to think is a great evolutionary achievement, people have become so enmeshed in thought, they’ve lost touch with their deeper essence and their spiritual legacy.

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0:00.0

Releasing barriers to presence.

0:03.0

In this podcast, Eckhart talks with a live audience about clearing away the obstacles to presence.

0:10.0

Eckhart says the entire universe is awakening and is in the early stages of something vast.

0:17.0

We are a part of that.

0:19.0

To be spiritually awake means releasing barriers created by the mind.

0:24.6

Eckhart says, while the ability to think is a great evolutionary achievement,

0:29.6

people have become so enmeshed in thought.

0:32.6

They've lost touch with their deeper essence and their spiritual legacy.

0:38.3

It's good to be back. I could live here.

0:42.3

Who knows what the universe is planning.

0:55.0

So if you haven't been with me before,

0:59.0

it might not look very promising

1:01.0

to have this man sitting on a chair.

1:07.0

Knowing that he's going to talk for,

1:10.0

who knows for how long.

1:13.6

He doesn't even walk up and down the state and gesticulates.

1:17.6

Well, he does gesticulate, but he doesn't get up.

1:21.6

And there's no PowerPoint presentation.

1:26.6

So there needs to be something here

1:30.3

that makes up for the deficiencies,

1:34.3

external deficiencies,

1:37.3

and that which makes up for the eternal deficiencies

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