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Dec 2022
35m 23s

Watch Your Mind

OPRAH AND ECKHART TOLLE
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In this podcast Eckhart discusses the path to awakening. He encourages listeners to detach from the mind, instead of being the mind. He says most of us get so enmeshed in our thinking we mistake it for reality. He also believes the mind tells us we need a long list of criteria to advance spiritually. But Eckhart says enlightenment is not something we attain in the future – in truth, full

consciousness is closer than we think. We can break through our thinking to awaken, right here, right now.

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