There is something beyond my life. In this episode, Eckhart explains that many of us

have to go through a lot of unhappiness before we awaken. He says he's never

met anyone whose life is not difficult and fraught with challenges.

He believes it's actually a good thing when we become dissatisfied with what we call my life.

He says our spiritual growth often begins when we realize

there must be something more and our suffering pushes us to find it. He goes on to explain that our real life is actually in the

here and now separate from the past and the future. In that way for Eckhart it is

eternal and connects us to the transcendent.

He says we can become familiar with this divine aspect of ourselves

through a state of no thinking, free of the inner critic and false narratives.

Eckhart says, when we discover who we are without our past,

what emerges is the profound presence of being.

For most people, they have to arrive at a place where the sense of self,

they recognize it as painful, ultimately, suffering, a lot of unhappiness.

And that for many people, the unhappiness, the dissatisfaction with their life, what you call my life,

to become dissatisfied with my life, can be a very good thing. Because that might take you to a questioning whether there's anything beyond my life.

And then you discover that there is something beyond my life, me and my life.

And that's already here. It's not something you can attain in the future. That which is beyond this limited thing my life that is so problematic,

the past has a heaviness to it. There's regret and guilt and blaming and grievances for many people.

And the future, the future is on the one hand holds a promise of fulfillment and unfortunately it also holds the threat of destruction,

because you're going to die.

So the future is a strange thing that on the one end you think it is going to fulfill you but behind that you also know it's going to kill you.

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