Hello podcast listeners. I am truly delighted to bring you this weekly series from someone I believe is one of the great spiritual thinkers of our time.

Eckhart Toe. These essential teachings by Eckhart will help you learn how to quiet your bind and understand the difference between your ego and your true self. If you're interested in

living a fully present life, Eckhart's essential teachings can put you on a path to discover

an enlightened state of consciousness. I know this one thing for sure. Eckhart Tolley and his

teachings have certainly enhanced and transformed my life.

I hope listening to Eckhart as a podcast will create a riveting, instructive, and spiritual experience for you, all at the touch of your fingertips.

In this podcast, Eckhart explains how challenging times have the potential to awaken us, whether it's political upheaval, the pandemic, or a personal crisis.

We all know it's pretty rare for people to evolve when life is going well.

Eckhart says that it's actually adversity, not comfort, that pushes us to grow spiritually and awaken to the deeper dimension of who we really are.

Welcome. So we are here to address the topic of living in challenging times, how to deal with sometimes extreme challenges, how to stay conscious

when challenges arise. It is, of course, true to say that most of the time life is experienced for most people as challenging, although

there are sometimes interludes when everything seems to be going very well. According to

plan, good things happen, you can relax, be happy, perhaps you've fallen in love,

or you're just getting married, or you got a promotion, you're doing well professionally,

a child is born, happy moments, happy interludes.

It's wonderful when things are going well in one's life.

But the strange thing is there's always something that comes in sooner or later

that seems to want to sabotage the things that are going well in your life.

Some people take it even personally,

and they think there's perhaps a God who has something against them,

or they say life in general is treating me unfairly. Why do these things always happen

to me? Everybody else seems to be fine. Of course that's a misperception. They may

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