Our experience of life is not determined by what happens to us. In this podcast,

Eckert talks to an audience in Chicago. He recalls fond memories of traveling to

the Windy City to my Harpo Studios back in 2008.

For 10 weeks, Eckhart and I hosted a webinar based on his New York Times best-selling book,

A New Earth.

The book had a profound impact on me, and I wanted to share it with a larger audience and those

sessions were groundbreaking to say the least and since then millions of people

have downloaded that webcast and listen to our conversations if you haven't

already you really should. I believe rolling back the ego

and focusing on being rather than doing opened the door to awakening for me and for many. Today, Eckhart continues his work ever reminding us that our

experience of life is not determined by what happens to us. It's defined by how we

respond.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Lovely space and wonderful people all very conscious and present I can feel it except for one or two.

those one or two were dragged here by a friend who said you must come. But there is a chance tonight that you might begin to awaken. You may not know

what that means yet and you might say, what are you talking about I'm awake already but to awaken in a deeper and

different sense in a spiritual sense. Most of you are here because you are going through the

awakening process already a shift in consciousness and that is characterized by many things,

but primarily the lessening of suffering and unhappiness in your life and a more harmonious way of relating to your fellow human beings and increasing sense of satisfaction that does not depend on external conditions,

although you are still able to appreciate lovely things when they come into your life, but you do not

become devastated and incredibly unhappy when the lovely things that have come into your life leave you again,

because that is how the universe in this dimension operates.

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