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Feb 2023
43m 55s

You Are the Present Moment

OPRAH AND ECKHART TOLLE
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In this podcast Eckhart gives a brief talk on his signature teaching: the power of presence and then answers questions from the audience. He says the important thing to understand is the presence that inhabits our bodies is not something that is external to us, it is the essence of us. He says the secret and the mystery of the present moment is that we are the present moment.

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