Eckhart Tolle on the Socratic Method: "I Know That I Know Nothing"
Eckhart explores Socrates' famous statement, “I’m the only one who knows that he knows nothing," along with what we can learn from it in the modern day. The ability to approach life from the perspective of not knowing anything sounds easy, but can be rather difficult. With Eckhart's guidance, take this moment to learn how to apply this wisdom to your everyday life.
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About Eckhart:
Eckhart Tolle is widely recognized as one of the most inspiring and visionary spiritual teachers in the world today. With his international bestsellers, The Power of Now and A New Earth-translated into more than 50 languages-he has introduced millions to the joy and freedom of living life in the present moment. The New York Times has described him as “the most popular spiritual author in the United States,” and in 2011, Watkins Review (now Watkins Mind Body Spirit) named him “the most spiritually influential person in the world.”
Eckhart’s profound yet simple teachings have helped countless people around the globe experience a state of vibrantly alive inner peace in their daily lives. His teachings focus on the significance and power of Presence, the awakened state of consciousness, which transcends ego and discursive thinking. Eckhart sees this awakening as the essential next step in human evolution.
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Eckhart Tolle changed my life.
@Alan-hk7eo
8 ай бұрын
I wish it would be "our live". :) :) Life is always changing "inside" and "outside"...💙
@robertforsythe3280
8 ай бұрын
Eckhart is but a guide within this realm. Knowing what you love most and seek the origin.
@mindsigh4
8 ай бұрын
Super09 🙏💜🕯️🌱🐾👣🌿🌎🕊️
@hdspacechic
8 ай бұрын
DITTO😍 So grateful for Eckhart
@robertforsythe3280
8 ай бұрын
I am one who has been to the other side. Follow the narrow path to become one. I have done it by the study of the gospel of Thomas. Ponder and know@@mindsigh4
Socrates said: I am the only one who knows he knows nothing. Being in the state of not knowing…and receiving counsel from a divine voice aka an inspired dimension within him? This is within us ❤
Eckhart was and is the impetus for my decision to open myself to the possibility of the Unmanifested, the Consciousness , of God. I am forever grateful... thank you Eckhart.
I am so very grateful for your teachings, I’m currently reading your books and I watch your teachings every single day , as you say when you’re ready for the teachings the teacher appears , infinite love and gratitude for all that u do and how much you’re changing the world ♥️
Thank you so very much Eckhart! You are one of a kind & help so many people, including me♥️
It's such a pleasure to listen to this man, his teaching are so clear, so inspiring wow !
Eckart Tolle is one of the best consciousness teachers out there. So grateful he is coming to Rotterdam soon 💗
@Beekind799
8 ай бұрын
he knows nothing of presense
@melanymaquaizer2919
7 ай бұрын
When and where ??? 😮
@Beekind799
7 ай бұрын
@@melanymaquaizer2919 what if there is no melanie,what if melanie is just a thought,this message is loaded up with my energy
Eckhart never ceases to amaze me. He has a unique way of communicating what is in essence a very simple message. Life is universal - it cannot be understood in the classical mind-based way. Dissolve your mind based identity, your ego, and you have eternal peace of ... pun intended ... no mind.
@mindsigh4
8 ай бұрын
that would be a good change to the lyrics of that Beatles song:I "i'd give u everything i got.. for a little peace of no mind.."
@annettegardiner7270
8 ай бұрын
This makes me feel more open to other possibilities of another way to live 😅
I read Your book about present and I have learned one thing. Most people live their lives- NOT KNOWING THEMSELVES. Y. I know nothing. It does not matter.
Gratitude love and prayers ❤🙏
Thank you kind sir. I listen to you daily…from Bend Oregon
Muchísimas gracias!!!❤️🤍💜💙🩵🤗🙏
Good Morning 🌄
Thought forms are like boxes moving on a conveyer belt in a factory that pass through our minds wether we like it or not but when one stops thinking or goes beyond thought there are no boxes on the conveyer belt yet the conveyer belt still moves continuously which is the flow of divine consciousness. The trick is to not identify ourselves as the boxes which results in form based identity.
Thank you very much, for this interesting video.🙏🌼
As always, Many thanks for this inspired teaching, so powerfully embodied through Presence. 🌸🙏🏻🧘♀️
Thanks Eckhart! 💜
@stephenflood3463
8 ай бұрын
Hi Nicole!..it's good to see you here enjoying Eckharts meditation. I will email you soon!✨💜✨
@midnightblue2893
8 ай бұрын
@@stephenflood3463 glad to see you too and will write with you soon! 💜
❤Socrates, he hooked me like all the rest, haven’t stopped inquiring since.
Gratitude ❤
Thank you, Eckhart, as always 🙏
Maestro Eckhart: Muchísimas gracias. 😊🙏💚
Always loved Socrates and Plato so it makes sense that I love this teaching! Thank you so much!
Very true. 🙏 In fact the so-called human being is afraid of his own Beauty. What a bizarre entity this human being is! So grateful 💓🙏✨✨✨
Thank you Eckhart for this chakra tease
My cat Simba...a siameese...is my greatest teacher.. Puuuuuurfect.
A Greek professor called Socrates the "first teacher". True, most people dont read Plato nowadays. Quite unfortunate....Anw. great video/speech as always 😊
Thank you thank you thank you so much sir
Changing lives through simple words
Thanks for the share ….. ✝️
Divine timing 🙏 I was again wondering about Socrates 'not knowing' wisdom, with respect to surrender. Thank you ❤
He's a gem!
Thank you Sir❤
Somebody ask him to analyze Van Halen's song "Right Now" and comment on the video, please. He needs to expand his comfort zone, medicine for the world...
I have been watching eckhart for one mont, this video explaines the basis of spiritual living. Hits different!
I recognize what you say about the works of Plato. It has definitely influenced my way of thinking. I have read all of Plato's works, the politeia five times. The spiritual expressiveness is great, because it is a search for consciousness. Here in the Netherlands, Plato's works have been translated by people who understood this (School of Philosophy, in the line of Gurdjieff and Vedanta). Now these and other books remain on the bookshelves, except the Asthavakra Samhita and some words of Ramana. But still, after forty years (now i am 72) , the words of Socrates come to my mind when necessary.
Me ha pasado con dos videos tuyos Maestro siento que Dios ..la Fuente infinita del universo me habla atreves de ti,,,y en esas dos oportunidades he llorado...Gracias por tanto Maestro.
Ahh, the waterfall sound is back, I hear. Bless.
I am so happy to hear him speak on this bc I have become fascinated by Street Epistemology as a method of engaging and connecting with people with very different world views and values.
Eckhart talks about Socrates and Plato and then how people get lost in their own thinking. He could have made the connection with Plato's allegory of the cave where people watch images projected on the cave walls and make a life of doing that. Of course the images are a metaphor of our own thoughts and feelings which we take to be real, becoming totally absorbed by them to the exclusion of all else. We have to leave the cave and our absorption with thoughts and feelings and come into the sunlight outside if we want to live an authentic life. Much thanks, Eckhart, for your insights.
Great video as usual ❤❤ Thank you E.T ❤
Namaste
The beloved self.. pure conciousness... the "i princaple😮
Ponder deeply. A education for ones soul. To Think or not to Think that is the Question. Do you follow or do you seek? You make your own path in this life. What do you Love most?
Eckhart ich schenke Dir Dankesperlen Sternenfunkeln und Rosenduft
Thanks.
The residue of this diminishing little-me-personhood wants to show gratitude to Eckhart Tolle for his pointers contributing to this gradually awakening-process, but it’s not for this “me”. It is a lovely gesture of consciousness though.
Once you “remove” your self and enter the state of the “beginners mind” then you are able to tap into higher or collective intelligence and the information/inspiration can be received instantaneously via the “sixth sense” … it simply becomes available in forms of serendipity/luck/inspiration… and so on. One needs to be able to accept this as a natural part of one’s own body / physical existence
Yes I have heard of Socrates 😊
To the person reading this message Each attempt you make is a step closer to your dreams. It's okay to stumble or face setbacks because they are part of the journey. Remember that the most successful people have faced failures, but they persisted and learned from them. Your determination is your greatest asset, and with each try, you gain experience and wisdom. Keep taking those brave steps forward because you're inching closer to success. Your efforts will surely bear fruit, and your resilience will light the path to your goals. Keep going, and don't be afraid to keep trying! I love you❤️
@dawon7750
8 ай бұрын
What about having a series of stambles, then at the last stambles it has taken your life?
Cool 😊😊😊
..I observe a memory of me the person laying in bed shaking with anxiety. I observed the mind ask the question "..what does this (thought voice of mind and body) truthfully know about I that is observing this question?". I observed the mind realise that it knows and unknows nothing about I am, so what is the point of trying to think about I am? I observed the Bodymind Surrender with a Sigh of Relief at the impossible task of defining I. I am aware that I the formless intelligent awareness am neither knowing nor am I unknowing! I am that I am. About a week or so later the anxiety returned, but it had no hold and faded as swift as it appeared to I. Anxiety is no more than a simple alert to the misidentification. Mind is no longer identified with because I the true identity observe that I am aware that I am neither knowing nor unknowing. I am aware that I am aware. It is also interesting how thoughts appear to be aware of I am, yet that is all thoughts are: conscious of I. I observe the wonderous impermanence of form say no more than "Hello, I. No, not this. I am". Interestingly, I am neither beginning nor am I ending! A definition of sadness; to fear and desire leaving and remaining. I am neither less than now nor am I more than now; the definition of guilt! I am beyond the fear and desire of opposing and posing of knowing and unknowing! All this I observe to be Ego Sign. A fictional label of conscious thought that mind made up to give up to that which is real. I observe all form as the living symbol that represents I am, and that form can only reflect that it is because I am that I am. All this is just meaningless form. Are these words on the screen aware of I the reader? Am I the person really aware of I am? There is no answer to be had from nothing other than I am aware of nothing. This is the null and void true nature of form. Form is not really there. Form is a reflection of the formless aspect of I. Form is I am that is aware that I am not. So what is form? It is. What am I? I am. What does all this say and mean? Nothing. Because form is nothing, yet even form is conscious of I am, because I am all that is real. I am that I am. I am...silence...stillness...presence...I am...
✨💖✨🙏🏻🌟Thankyou
@Eckhart Tolle - *INCLUDE THE ORIGINAL DATE THAT THE VIDEO WAS RECORDED*
@mindsigh4
8 ай бұрын
please...🤷
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I talk that way. I know if I say it people have to believe me. However if I ask and they come up with the answer then they feel like that answered their own question.
It could just be an act of humility for Socrates, rather than really starting from an unknowing point. It doesn't necessarily mean he knew before. However, it is interesting that is associated with an inspirational Divinity.
totally. children know everything. We get in our own way.
so many seem so hopelessly trapped in identification with form(s), especially the ones I love/d
5:08 Plato was definitely not a rational thinker though, maybe Tolle confuses him with Aristotle. Plato was obsessed with the soul and the world of ideas. Aristotle did not believe in a soul and believed in a material world.
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Yeah I agree that doesn’t speak to me either the insufficient surface taught to folks today and lost in translation too
We don’t know about Socrates only from Plato’s writings but also from Aristophanes and Xenophon! Plato was a Socrates pupil!
Is the original quote not saying "I know that I don't know"
Ever watch Hogan's Heroes?
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But if you know that you know nothing, then surely you know that you do know something? It’s like the only thing that stays the same is that everything changes…
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"I know that I know nothing". Is it ignorance or is it wisdom? Ithink it is profound wisdom. In other words, there is no "me" there is no one here to know anything. There are only responses to the questions coming out of nowhere. Isn't this bloody amazing? This is precisely what we're looking for. But thought interferes and says don't go to the unknown, it's to dangerous, stay in the known, that's where the safety is. Hence human dilemma.
@Alphacentauri819
7 ай бұрын
Ignorance is not knowing that you don't know... wisdom is knowing that you don't know. That's the difference!
@janel342
7 ай бұрын
Or as Shakespeare said ‘ the Fool thinks himself to be a wise man; The wise man knows himself to be a fool’
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. However…. I typed this 😂✨
The unless it 🙏
Inner dime mention a pair a dime, hum anonymity i don’t know ME is just fine
That's not difficult. My wife always says that I don't know anything.
So Socrates was building the plane, while he was flying it …..and he as the philosophical pilot, the questioning passenger and the plane as the vehicle of their combined thought processes, through the journey of their conversation, all arrived together at their destination , the answer. Just as an egg does not know if it will become a chicken or a Turtle, and a caterpillar has no clue until it becomes a comatose chrysalis that it will morph into a butterfly, so too Socrates did not know he knew what he knew… when the question is asked, the teacher will appear.
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I wish he wouldn't use the phrase "energy field", it makes it sound so holistic.
But knowing that you know nothing is knowing something 🤔
Knowing that one knows nothing is the essence of wisdom. Among other reasons, the first is that you cannot prove the existence of anything beyond your own thoughts. The world APPEARS to be a real, shared experience by many different types of intelligent beings, but it's not actually provable. You can only always fall back on Descartes' "I think, therefore I am." When you really grasp the essence of this truth it becomes easier to think of the omnipotent "I AM" which I believe to be the essence of all things, and of which we human beings and our world and universe, are simply a part. When you connect to the stillness behind your thoughts you may perceive the persistent "I AM." Naturally, speaking of existence in this way begins to feel like a truthful, fruity word salad, but such is the imprecise beauty of language itself, which cannot fully capture the concept. But when you know, then You Know. :->
dººb!
The statement is contradictory. If you know that you know nothing then you know something.
Δασκαλε τα σεβη μου.Ο δασκαλος Ενωδων διδει αλλη ερμηνεια στο εν οιδα, οτι ουδεν οιδα και συμφωνω.Ειδα το Ενα,γνωρισα το Ενα.Και δεν γνωριζω{ξερω} τιποτα.Το παρομοιαζει ο Ενωδων με τη ρηση του αρχηγου,Μαρθα Μαρθα,μεριμνας και τυρβαζη περι πολλα ενος δε εστι χρεια.Επισης νομιζω οτι ειναι ιδιο με αυτο που ελεγε ο δασκαλος Κρισναμουρτι,για το αδειασμα της συνειδησης απο το περιεχομενο.Και με την αγνωσια που διδασκε ο αγιος Διονυσιος ο Αρεοπαγιτης ο πρωτος Επισκοπος των Αθηνων.Απο οτι λενε οι Διδασκαλοι της αγαπης σοφιας προκειται για το Νιρβανικο πεδιο.Δηλαδη εκει που βιωνεται η ενοτητα και οτι απο εκει εχουμε εκπεσει.Εσυ θα μπορεσεις να το δωσεις καλυτερα στον κοσμονα το κατανοησει.Χαιρετω.Χ.Ι.Χ.
Since Eckhart participated in a lecture in Seattle when the Covid passport was mandatory, he lost his credibility to me. How can it be ok to participate in a segregational system? I would like to have a good explanation from him on that!
strange cat and ,,,sharp dresser too
I side with Charlie. I’d say he shouldn’t be kink shaming but I don’t think he would be if sneaky hadn’t been so aggressive and weird about it. If you and your person are swingers or whatever, I do think care but I don’t know why this guy is being so angry and why are you talking about you and your girl are doing?
I know NO THING. He was enlightened bc he recognized the EGO based identity inside and dismissed it.
why so many waifu here?
@stephenflood3463
8 ай бұрын
Yo, what's waifu mean?
i wouldn't say the saying ' i know nothing " applies to Mr Tolle.......he certainly "knows" how to make money that's for sure!...... how many millions do you have in the Bank??.....i wouldn't call that "knowing nothing"... would you.
This video is erroneous Professor Tolle. Plato & Socrates were VERY pious. Their lives revolved around intellectual virtue founded through God. That was a time of Utopia and enlightenment for human beings. Humans read books to acquire some sense of perspective in metaphysics and the ontological state of being. However, "real" knowledge can ONLY come from God. This was a time where the Gods and Goddesses were blessed with "Divine Enrichment." These omnipotent beings NEVER went away. Human Beings swayed away from these beings and turned to ONE God, that being "Yahweh", the Father of Yeshua (Pbuh). However, trillions of higher beings in this universe have come from God, not only Jesus. The enrichment and substance one acquires from life must correlate to a higher purpose. I still do my prayers and blessings for the Gods & Goddesses but I am an Alien Being. This is the reason Ontario, Canada is no different than Utopia. The people may be absolute garbage but Water, Earth, Fire, and Air are in complete balance in Ontario. Look at what just happened to New York & New Jersey. What about all the wildfires in the entire world? The United Kingdom is cursed by God because they desecrated "Holy Land" at Stonehenge. Who is the perfect human for God? Captain Katherine Janeway of the "Starship Voyager." She isn't a pious woman but has a great deal of respect for ALL "Alien Religions." To deny the Gods & Goddesses is to deny God altogether.
Was socrates a Gemini ? 😂
You don’t even know the rapture is about to happen yet you’re “awake”?
@garrettstrong9606
8 ай бұрын
@@marvelfan9550 Oh man. And all this time I thought I was about to get raptured. Thanks for clarifying. Lol! John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Let me break this down as I see it. This teacher has just got his information from Wikipedia. For what purpose. I see, this teacher knows better than Socrates, there is a superiority complex at play here. This is typical from many teachers who claim to know what you are thinking. Proof of that is, quote; " most humans go through life only knowing themselves". Quote; " Socrates said", how does anyone know what Socrates said when he authored nothing, it is only hear say. This teacher prefers Socrates going into that state of not knowing rather than from already having accumulated knowledge. So hear say said Socrates received council from a divine voice. And surprise surprise, this teacher knows, quote: " they don't see the depths out of which his thinking actually came", by saying conceptualization and non conceptualization is in everyone. Socrates did not have a clue about the physical source within him that formed the intelligent species nor how that physical source within derived and obtain his imprinted knowledge, so naturally Socrates would say he receives council from a divine source, Socrates can be excused, but ,this teacher cannot be excused for not knowing how that ,our, physical source within derived and instead he offered a pathetic explanation of the physical source within is conceptualisation and non conceptualisation, verifiable! Hello! you cant have consciousness without a physical source to form form first.