What We Call My Life Is a Mental Fiction

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this episode, Eckhart elaborates on the narratives we create called My Life. He says these stories are really a work of fiction. It’s like we’re following a script. We play our part and go through all the motions. He explains when we identify with these scripts, we’re unconscious and stuck in the grip of the ego. These patterns may go back generations and include family dysfunction and that too becomes part of our story. Family members have their scripts, and we have ours. Eckhart says when we argue with each other, that strengthens the ego. We must realize there is an aspect in all of us that transcends any narrative. Eckhart calls it the spiritual dimension. We find freedom when we grow towards greater consciousness. Want more podcasts from OWN? Visit https://bit.ly/OWNPods You can also watch Oprah’s Super Soul, The Oprah Winfrey Show and more of your favorite OWN shows on your TV! Visit https://bit.ly/find_OWN

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0:00.0	What we call My Life is a mental fiction.
0:05.0	In this episode, Eckhart elaborates on the narratives we create called My Life.
0:11.0	He says these stories are really a work of fiction, like we're following a script.
0:15.0	He explains, we play our part and go through all the motions.
0:19.0	He believes when we identify with these scripts, we're unconscious and stuck in the grip of the ego.
0:24.7	He says these patterns may go back generations and include family dysfunction, which becomes part of our story.
0:31.4	He further explains, family members have their own scripts just as we have ours.
0:35.9	Eckhart says, when we argue with each other,
0:38.3	it strengthens the ego.
0:40.3	He urges us to realize there is an aspect in all of us
0:44.3	that transcends any narrative.
0:46.3	Knowing this will help us to find freedom
0:48.3	when we grow towards greater consciousness.
0:51.3	Thank you. greater consciousness.
1:03.0	Thank you.
1:05.0	Ah.
1:12.9	Everybody seems to be very present, just checking.
1:19.6	Maybe one or two are not yet completely present.
1:30.3	Most of you are here because you are experiencing, have been experiencing the awakening of consciousness,
1:35.3	even though you may not have been using that particular term to describe it.
1:43.3	The wider context for our gathering here term to describe it.
1:49.0	The wider context for our gathering here is the evolution of human consciousness.
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