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Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Essential Teachings Special: You Are The Light of the World

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.64.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Originally aired September 8, 2022. In this podcast Eckhart talks with a live audience. He encourages participants to release their thinking so they can become aware of their “being.” He says most of us have a mistaken sense of identity based on what we think about ourselves, but that’s not who we really are. Eckhart goes on to quote Jesus who famously said, “You are the light of the world.” Eckhart believes what he meant is that we are all are the light of consciousness and that is our true identity and the source of our deepest essence.

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You are the light of the world. In this episode, Eckhart encourages listeners to release their

0:06.4

thinking so they can become aware of what he calls their being. He says, most of us have a

0:11.6

mistaken sense of identity based on what we think about ourselves. He explains, however,

0:17.1

that's not who he really are. Eckhart goes on to quote Jesus who said,

0:21.4

you are the light of the world.

0:24.7

Eckhart believes what Jesus is saying is,

0:27.0

you are the light of consciousness,

0:29.9

because that is our true identity

0:31.6

and the source of our deepest essence.

0:36.9

The essence of our gathering here and the essence of all spirituality is to discover

0:43.4

in yourself the possibility of stepping out of thought, and initially for brief moments.

0:57.0

And that is an amazing thing. Before your identity was derived from the movement of thought.

1:03.0

Your identity was derived from the narrative, the story of me,

1:08.0

my life was your identity, what you called my life.

1:13.6

And now you become aware when there's a moment of no thought,

1:21.6

what is it that who or what are you,

1:26.6

and I'm not just talking about it now.

1:28.3

As I talk, let's do it.

1:31.3

We're not doing it, it's the wrong word, but the language is very limited.

1:36.3

There's no doing, we're becoming a way of being, that's really what it is.

1:40.3

So you don't do anything to become a way of being.

1:43.3

So there's no thought in this moment.

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