The stillness within. In this podcast, Eckhart takes us through two live meditations

about the stillness within. He says, finding the transcendent dimension is the only thing

that will satisfy us. It's not something we can achieve. It's something we discover in the here

and now. When we say, I am aware of stillness,

it means I am aware of the I am, which is the essence of all identity. Eckhart believes it's stillness

that will save the world.

I just want to remind you that we are not here to do anything. We are here to, one could say, experience something rather than do something.

And what we are here to experience, and even that's not quite right, I'll come to that in a minute,

what we're here to experience is very subtle, but very powerful. Whatever name we give that

reduces it. It's not that. It's very vast. For the time being, let's just call it

stillness. Now when I said we're here to experience something, that's not absolutely right,

but whenever we use language, we are bound to falsify that which goes far beyond concepts.

It's not so much that we're here to experience something as to find that which underlies

all experience. And I mention that is deeper than any experience, becoming aware of that within yourself.

So, some of you may have written down

or have in your mind goals you want to achieve in life,

and that's good.

It's unlikely that achieving stillness

will figure prominently as one of your goals

or even number one.

And yet it's the most important thing in your life.

But it's a good thing that it's not on your list of goals to be achieved,

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