The most difficult people in your life are your greatest teachers.

In this episode, Eckhart says no one person can make us happy because the demand is not

only too much, but also an impossible task.

He explains, falling in love, may feel wonderful.

The honeymoon starts and everything is beautiful until the day comes when we discover our partner

has issues or even worse, a very active pain body.

He says, we might panic thinking, I made a terrible mistake.

With his humor, Eckhart explains, what's really happening is the relationship no longer

masks the real problem, our underlying anxiety and disconnection.

He says, as long as we look for gratification outside ourselves in people, places and things

or what he calls a horizontal dimension, we will always feel like something is missing.

He shares that the most difficult people in our lives can become our greatest teachers

because they push us to awaken, to step into the vertical or transcendent dimension.

You will be challenged by the things of the world and that could be other people.

The most difficult people in your life are your teachers when you suddenly realize the

world is here to challenge me so that I awaken to the deeper dimension of who I am, then

you can recognize it, especially the difficult people in your life and the biggest challenges

which could be of other kinds too, there can be physical challenges, the body, there can

be financial challenges, challenges of relationships, challenges of great loss, upheavals on a personal

level, upheavals on a collective level that you are part of.

We had this pandemic that affected millions and millions of people in different ways,

some more severely than others, but challenged everybody and they are more challenges coming

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