Healing Our Obsession with Doing
Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings
Oprah
4.6 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Eckhart talks about how critical it is we balance being with doing. He says without it we will not reach the deeper dimension of consciousness which is our legacy. Eckart explains when we’re obsessed with doing and achieving, we cannot appreciate whatever is here in the present moment, much less attain enlightenment. He states the world is already overrun with doing and the result is chaos. He believes the solution to many of our problems, both individual and collective, start with seeking stillness. Eckhart reveals we are never more ourselves than when we are still.
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| 0:00.0 | Healing are obsession with doing. In this episode, Eckhart talks further about how |
| 0:06.0 | critical it is that we balance being with doing. He says, without it, we will not |
| 0:11.4 | reach the deeper dimension of consciousness that is our legacy. He explains that |
| 0:17.0 | when we're so obsessed with doing and achieving, we can't appreciate whatever it |
| 0:22.2 | is here in the present moment. Much less attain enlightenment. He states that the |
| 0:28.4 | world is already overrun with doing and the result is chaos and that the |
| 0:33.1 | solution to many of our problems, both individual and collective, start with |
| 0:38.1 | seeking stillness. He reveals that we are never more ourselves than when we are |
| 0:44.7 | still. |
| 0:47.7 | This must be what is called the limelight. I don't know what says to do with limelight. |
| 0:53.1 | There must be some reason in the etymology of limelight. This may be a |
| 1:00.3 | question in answer session. I say maybe because you never know. As the ancient |
| 1:09.8 | Middle Eastern proverb says, the camel driver has his plans and the camel has |
| 1:16.6 | its own plans. Perhaps we can start with a few before we go on to questions. A few |
| 1:27.4 | additional remarks about the important subject of being and doing and finding a |
| 1:39.3 | balance and before finding a balance, being able to enter to access the being |
| 1:49.6 | dimension. That's already a good start. And then at first, what tends to happen, |
| 1:59.4 | but also not invariably, is you enter the being dimension or access it when you're |
| 2:09.2 | in a place that is conducive to stillness or the serenity or here. They |
| 2:20.1 | protect its place or perhaps at home in your room or in your room or in nature. |
| 2:30.3 | At first, the being dimension is associated with cessation of doing. That's how you first |
| 2:41.8 | realise it. It's when you're not doing anything and you can just be consciously be which implies |
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