Reborn connected to being. In this podcast, Eckhart talks to a live audience in Hawaii.

He says, Aloha to the crowd and then explains the spiritual meaning of the word.

He also mentions stillness which he says is the essence of who we are.

He defines stillness as the absence of internal noise and the incessant stream of self-centered,

harmful thinking that keeps us from realizing our being.

He says, looking into the eyes of a baby is a spiritual experience.

The baby looks back and the light of pure consciousness shines through.

He says, all who hold the baby are moved and something deeper awakens.

Eckhart believes we are born connected to being but we are not fully aware of it yet.

Aloha.

Although I will probably be talking quite a bit, stillness is the essence of our retreat

and also of course the essence of who you are.

I wrote somewhere, you are never more completely yourself than when you are still.

Stillness is not just the absence of noise.

In English you have the words silence and you have the word stillness.

We could say that silence refers to the absence of external noise

and stillness refers to the absence of internal noise.

And what is internal noise?

The incessant stream of continuous compulsive and to a loud extent not only unnecessary but very often harmful thinking.

Not the creative thinking, empowered thinking but self-identified thinking.

But if we describe stillness as an absence of something, stillness is also the presence of something.

Well not of something but is presence itself.

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