Transcending our stories. In this podcast Eckhart talks to a live audience about

our tendency to manufacture stories about ourselves and others. He discusses our

desperate need to be right and to make others wrong. And while it may feel

gratifying in the moment Eckhart says having a story actually strengthens the

ego keeping us stuck. However we don't have to stay in that negativity. He

explains how we can learn to shift our inner narrative, release the ego and

align ourselves with the peace of the present moment. I'm beginning to

receive your questions. Thank you very much. If possible, write as

allegedly as you can. Otherwise I'll get really irritated. And my mind will say,

do they expect me to read this to be able to read this? Why can't they write

more identically? Isn't it common sense that they should write identically? Why

do people do things like that? There would be a normal ego reaction to

something that in itself is perfectly okay because you can either read it or

you can't. But the ego adds a story to it. And behind the story is always an

attempt to be more right than the other person. There's always an attempt to

have in some kind of superiority. It's unconscious of course. Ego is always

unconscious. Alternatively, but actually I don't get irritated as you might

have guessed. If there's a paper that's not legible, I look okay. I'll put this

aside and give it more tension later in the meantime. I'll read the

legible ones and then if there's time later I'll give it more tension. There's

no problem without a story. You are not wrong and I'm not right. This is just

what it is. Just a tiny example of the difference between aligning yourself to

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