The world will always challenge you.

In this podcast, Eckhart talks about the importance of remaining what he calls teachable.

He cautions us to be aware of the stories, the concepts and labels we use to interpret the world.

He encourages us to ask ourselves when we meet someone new.

Do we give ourselves space to just be, to perceive, or do we instantly judge and manufacture stories about this person?

He ponders when we travel, do we experience awe or do we compare it to other places we've been?

He points out that when we never experience anything new,

the sense of aliveness is gone from our lives.

Eckhart says, we must ask ourselves, who are we without the old narrative, the mental and emotional conditioning,

which is the result of our self-centered thinking?

He points out the world will always challenge us.

He says it's not here to make us happy.

It is here to help us awaken.

It's two o'clock in Europe and Australia. It's already tomorrow.

It might be interesting to check in inside yourself,

as we are sitting here, as you are sitting here,

are you thinking all the time, as you sit here,

or are there spaces when you are not thinking and just an awareness?

And by saying you are spaces when you are not thinking,

I do not mean drifting off towards sleep after it's perhaps too heavy a meal.

So I'm not referring to, okay, I'm not thinking because it's too tired to think.

Yes, you have become free of thinking, but you are moving towards unconsciousness.

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