"All of humanity's problems, stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - Blaise Pascal

@specilegg

Ай бұрын

Jesus is the way 🕊️

@PW-le6cr

Ай бұрын

Very brilliant

@cyberlopo2478

15 күн бұрын

Yes, exactly

@johanvoellner1849

2 күн бұрын

i said that first

@johanvoellner1849

2 күн бұрын

@@specilegg they dont really contradict each other calm down

I have been alone for 25 years, after my husband passed on. After raising kids on farm/horse stables, I found it (although I miss him, wish he was here) glorious. Peaceful. Contentment. I even moved 2000 miles away to sunshine & mountains, where I knew nobody. 🧘‍♀️ I had large brain tumor. It blocked my thinking, so I was just doing, being. Awareness was beyond words. The Light. Love silence & nature. Loved the sound of my family's happiness, but this happened at the right time. Hallelujah 🙌 ironically, they all followed me 🤣 long story!, my son being single dad, I had to step up (for the deepest love on earth) to doing "that" again. Bc of economy & best decisions for her, now we live together again. The universe ✨️ 💖 works in mysterious ways. Feel like I'm back on the farm 😂 granddaughter almost done w/college; my daughter can't wait to retire & downsize 🤭 We shall see. Right now, I'm grateful for love around me & well... everything 💞 yes, long story. The bottom line is I love being alone. Loneliness is a state of mind. Alone is a state of being. 🐦🌳🦋

@infiniteinfinity9802

Ай бұрын

Loneliness is a state of mind and alone is a state of being. Very well said. I will remember that! Enjoy the joy and peace!!!🌈

@jesterday2222

Ай бұрын

Sounds wonderful 🧡 So many people are searching for happiness but what they really want (and they don't know it) is peace of mind. Happiness is just an temporary emotion, like anger and sadness. I think you found that peace in yourself. What a great state to be in! Hope you enjoy it for many more days to come 😊💖🦚 I love and treasure my solitude as well. And I love people too, I love seeing them smile, being grateful and content, like you! 😻

@iamthefiremanjj

Ай бұрын

yes

@mspattycakes1954

Ай бұрын

Oh what a wonderful post!! I am inspired by you. Eckhart changed, is changing my life with his teachings. I’m a bit of a slow learner…but what is time, right? lol. I am going to save your post. Have you thought of writing your story? ❤

@specilegg

Ай бұрын

Such blessing and Joy in your life! God bless you in Jesus name 🕊️💗

One day I was just sitting in my car waiting for my partner to join me and I noticed something in me. There was, what I called, a low grade boredom, unhappiness, uneasiness, etc humming in the background. More like grumbling if it had a sound like you would if you were unwell. It felt akin to a low grade fever barely noticeable. I spontaneously became very present and knew that if I didn’t have this awareness, I would’ve acted on the unease by looking at my phone or thinking I needed to do something. Later I read the Power of Now and Eckhart called it Ordinary Unconscious and that it was a low level unease, unhappiness, etc. I was like WOW he really knows what he’s talking about 😂

@jesterday2222

Ай бұрын

Wow becoming present like that is really wonderful, such a great feeling. It was fun to read 😊

@mspattycakes1954

Ай бұрын

Womderful! The man’s teachings, this man….changed my life beyond words. Thank you Eckhart ❤

@specilegg

Ай бұрын

Jesus is the way 🕊️✝️

@markpearce1437

Ай бұрын

@@specilegg oh for christ sake..🙄

@clairesmith1964

20 күн бұрын

​@@markpearce1437😅

I was sitting in the backyard with my Son a couple days ago it was so quiet and beautiful We just sat there and listened to the little songbirds We only had a little conversation then just sat quietly ❤ peaceful !!! We're making progress 😊

@march1969

Ай бұрын

Progress ... cue Eckhart laugh

@ngangarobinson3963

Ай бұрын

🎉🎉🎉

@specilegg

Ай бұрын

Jesus is the way 🕊️

8:44 The ability to be rooted in the present moment in yourself without needing any mental or external stimuli to make you feel complete or alive. Sit quietly and at ease in the room. It requires you to be quiet inside. You go through boredom to get to being. All the sudden you enjoy being. You can’t stand yourself. So you keep running into this or that. You use others to make you feel better. But you can’t stand them either. Because you aren’t connected with being. Come home to yourself. Then you can enjoy your own company. Otherwise nothing will satisfy you. You take dissatisfaction with you everywhere. Thanks Eckhart. 20 March 2024. 🌝🛍🍉⚓️💰🍑🌵🚀💫🐿🍺

I love how innocent and thoughtful Eckhart is. “I recently started texting and it was fascinating.”

@tulipssssssss

Ай бұрын

yes😂❤🥺

This is a challenging video, but it is important. Not only do I feel a compulsion to watch KZread videos, I also "multitask" by playing a game or browsing the internet while the video plays in the background. I'm going to try just sitting by myself while I absorb what's around me. I know it will be a challenge, but the more I do it, the more centered I'll become.

So many people is turning on the internet,to, for not to feel alone,🥹in place to go in the nature,to enjoy the sunshine,enjoy your self 😂enjoy the present 👍💫❤️🌈🌹Thank you Eckhart Tolle !

If we can deeply concentrate on anything (I mean absolutely anything, from the nature of thoughts to the noise of a leaf blower, a truck, or the quality of the greens in a meadow), then we can eventually notice something way beyond our ordinary perception. Something beyond description and beyond the very mental content. It takes some practice, because it's the subtlest thing in existence. But as we learn to recognize it, we become subtle ourselves, so this subtle "no-thing" suddenly reveals obvious and undeniably real. After a deep realization of that process, we come to the conclusion that boredom has never been a waste of time, on the contrary, the actual waste of time is to try and fill these "boring" moments with futile things.

@wenchen8173

Ай бұрын

Wow ! ! ! I read your comments several times, thank you for inspiring me; specifically when you said boredom is never been waste of time, the actually waste of time is trying to fill the boring moment with futile things

@Godshonestruth

11 күн бұрын

Brilliant

Sitting quiet in the room is the best feeling ever 🙏❤️

Haha I used think listening to Eckhart was boring. Lol now I feel peaceful and understood whenever I listen to him. 😅😊

It's impossible to listen intently and think at the same time, if you have a ticking clock, just listen to and concentrate on each tick and the mind will automatically go silent, once thoughts creep in again, as they will, just find the ticking again and repeat 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@gtageri100

Ай бұрын

I was doing that without knowing it shuts off thinking, thanks for putting it into a sentence. Same with birds chirping outside, you can break away from the noise in your head

I totally agree with this. Solitude is pure bliss. It’s other people I struggle with.

I was in a space where I couldn't stand myself I literally needed ppl to hold my hand through life 😅 my own mind was to toxic Nowadays I love sitting with myself I do most things by myself and I can only be around others for a longer period of time who go deep and are comfortable with quietness 😌

💥 When I have nothing to do, I binge on Eckhart Tolle videos. It's some weird practice, because binging 12 hours of spiritual teaching from many masters may be strange, but with KZread, we have it. 🎉❤❤❤

I truly love my own company. 😊

@JohnPretty1

Ай бұрын

Have many employees?

@margheritaacampora5575

Ай бұрын

@@JohnPretty1 my own company = be by myself 🤣🤣🤣

The only voice of sanity. Thank you Eckhart ❤

@willm5814

Ай бұрын

I think there are other enlightened souls out there, but he definitely is a beacon for all 😊

I struggle with this. I feel like I’m always supposed to be doing something and it’s hard to be still.

@clinkzenn

Ай бұрын

same me too sometimes i can get through this feeling my inner body i cant feel it completely yet just some parts of legs and hands it helps you there is boredom and there is that feeling of aliveness in your inner body notice boredom and put your attention on your inner body this works for me some times but some other times is much harder depends wish you peace and and an abundant life

@U.J.S.

Ай бұрын

Same here! My wife make fun of me for not being able to be bored. haha. I think that is why I came here. Getting some tips on how to be bored. I will implement what he is saying the next time I am not doing anything.

"When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think as I really think .... After a time it appears as though they want to banish me from myself and rob me of my soul .... I then require the desert, so as to grow good again" - Fréderich Nietzsche

There's so much to learn about life - how could you ever be bored??!!

Eckhart's laughter is the laughter of Sanity ❤

@fortissimoX

Ай бұрын

Lol, well said! 😁

I feel peace just listening Eckhart. Thank you for your wisdom 🕊✌✌

I absolutely LOVE when I have nothing to do and in such a busy life, if I can be for only 5min alone in silence it is already sheer bliss. Silence brings me so much joy I cannot put into words, even if many of the moments I spend alone with my thoughts are very painful and challenging.

@donnitoth7692

Ай бұрын

We are human BEINGS not human DOINGS.

@stormtraders

Ай бұрын

Maybe it’s time to prioritize things in your life. That counts for me too

I love it now. I was guided by spirit to quit my job. I’m free. Took me a few weeks to adjust and let go of attachments

@ngangarobinson3963

Ай бұрын

❤❤

@jahrasta4907

4 күн бұрын

I had to do the same thing. I'll miss certain co-workers but the peace and stillness is mind blowing.

I rarely feel bored these days. In fact, it seems like I hardly have enough time to do it all. I love, love quiet, alone time!

@pinkifloyd7867

Ай бұрын

So many distractions, so much to do, too much to just sit and do nothing for long .... It's insane 🤣

Ever since I read your book 7 years ago my life has changed!!

Eckhart thank you for the power of now it changed my life years ago! I never experience boredom, life has way too much to do to ever get bored. It is a mind that is unruly that can experience boredom. Once you know that you are not your mind and are the watcher of it how could life be boring? Just monitoring your inner dialogue should keep you interested! 😀👍

my biggest obstacle to sitting quiet is the incessant songs that repeat in my head non stop unless I listen to something else. I can sit quietly and listen to you but if it just silent then the songs take over.

@vickimurden9008

Ай бұрын

Same for me song’s consistently in my mind why is this

@Misslotusification

Ай бұрын

Coz it's entertaining, & filling the unbearable void the mind is uncomfortable with@@vickimurden9008

@kundaliniyogafromhome

Ай бұрын

It's called self talk. I observe my self talk and ask myself how it makes me feel. Then usually an old memory comes up (often unpleasant) and I allow it too. Then it depends on how severe the emotion is if I can let it go or if I choose a meditation to support me reflecting what is real and what is a mind game. Just thought I'd share

@manjukoshal3672

Ай бұрын

Same here ...there is always something playing in my mind

“come home to yourself” ❤

Oh, absolutely. When I'm not well, I try not to find solutions somewhere else, but within myself. It's a struggle, but it teaches you an awful lot.

When I am away camping sitting by my fire I am at peace no need to think. ❤

I find that putting your smartphone away from arms reach helps break the habit of constantly distracting yourself 🙂

very important talk.

Returning home on realising futility of searching happiness elsewhere and finding it at

Such a great message for people who get bored. Eckart looks great at 76 years old. There is none so boring as he who is bored. Words to live by.

@cgdombrow

Ай бұрын

This is not a recent talk, probably from early 2000’s…..

@Gently469

Ай бұрын

I guess you are likely right about that, my bad.@@cgdombrow

I needed this.😊 when i arrive home from work, my mind has not turned off from my day at work, etc. I tell myself, watch Jeopardy, or look at my phone, your mind needs some form of mental stimulus .

Dear Eckhardt - you are a blessed soul & my heart fills with love when I hear your voice, your wisdom 🙏 God Bless you 🙏❤️👍

Can’t think of anything to say, that’s a new thing. Thanks ✨

Definitely needed this reminder! Thank you! Lots of love and light! 🙏💕✨

But when I'm well, I'm inspired continuously. Being absorbed in a book, a movie , listening to music, dancing, writing a poem, knitting baby socks, cooking a curry, anything at all. I don't even notice if I 'm alone in the room or not. It's like being in Paradise, really, because if anybody is there, I do enjoy explaining or showing others what I'm doing, if they 're interested.

Thank you for this talk. "The Power of Now" is very beneficial for me.

Love and gratitude 💜

Thank you for opening my eyes Eckhart!!

@MirenVadera

Ай бұрын

If you knew the role Mahaprabhu Eckhart Tolle (Hermes Trimestigus in a 4th Incarnation) played in my journey and the world it will shock you... Anything is possible to God Gods biggest miracle ever On earth Miren Vadera (previously Shree Krishna, Jesus Christ and Angel Gabriel) Starring in the greatest true story ever told.... It could get better when somebody with intelligence goes to my channel and sees genuine miracles and guidances surpassing even this.

I've been on my own for months now, and I actually enjoy it. 😊

@JohnPretty1

Ай бұрын

In some ways you've been on your own your whole life.

@loischarlton2109

Ай бұрын

@@JohnPretty1 definitely

Thank you Eckhart reminding us. Sitting down in a comfortable chair, closing your eyes, feeling your respiration and let your mind leave the body and travel in the infinite universe and just flow. 🌼🌺🌸

Always grateful thank you so much sir

Amazing I just looked Blaise Pascal famous quote and it mentioned the one about the inability to stay alone in a room ,Thanks Universe for this synchronicity ❤

This is why solitary confinement is considered such a devastating punishment. I’m sure some could go mad.

I think indigenous peoples over the world had less problems with boredom - often even in old footage or movies they are or are depicted as being much more still and comfortable with ‘being’ 🙏

That's what I'm doing right now

I am really enjoying my self😂admiring the beautiful of nature ✌️🌹🌈❤️🙏👍😄

I like the way he gets a kick out of himself. It's like "did you see that? I just made a funny! he he!" I get what he's saying though. most of us do need to like who who we are more.

“of course the implications are deep & vast ...“ ❤⚡️❤️ love love love it.

When I became aware that everything and everyone has something to say, even "non living" things, life became fascinating in all its forms...boredom is impossible...

So true 🙏. Unfortunately 😂I'm stuck in a constant doing and I dream🤣 about the boring moments✨ but in any case the key is precisely that : " DON'T RUN AWAY". ❤ Don't run away from everything both the doing and the not doing. Including boredom. SO grateful 💓🙏✨✨✨✨✨🌺

Very timely discourse as I have a head cold and was feeling incredibly bored with its effects.

Implications of dysfunction of the mind and diving into a meditative state. 🙏🙏🙏

So perfect. This restlessness with no name is boredom. My mind gets it now😊 I've now have something to help to acknowledge another layer of insanity...or mind trap. Thank you🎉❤

@LM-uq9nv

Ай бұрын

A dear friend told me about the time he spent in a mental hospital. He recalled having a breakthrough when he glanced at the shelves in the recreation room filled with games and puzzles. There was the game "mind trap". The absurdity of it there in that setting cracked him up.

Boredom true the biggest issue in our minds currently ekhart❤❤🎉🎉

Accepting it brings resistance to rest

As I'm writing I'm alone nlin my room listening Elkhart a strong mood came to my mind and I got relax

Good Day Mr. Tolle - I have been practicing this stillness in which you speak of. At times of my practice I find it so peaceful and profound in discovering myself and who I am. It is still a "work in progress", practice but I truly understand what you speak of. Thank you for all your teachings. Blessings Mr. Tolle. Take care. 🌞☕🙏🏼♾️🕯️☯️🙂

Best video ever 🙏❤ Im home ❤🙏 Thanks

Bored RIGHT NOW stalking you on YT 🤧 “What’s Eckhart talking about? ME? Oh Good!” 😂

This lecture is dearly appreciated,. Thank you!

Teacher, thank you for the opportunity to listen to your words.

I don't have the ability to imagine and string these words together but I do have the clarity to recognize them and agree, just like water is wet and the sky is blue, when they are spoken. The whole things makes me giddy like a little kid. Thank you

Eckhart makes me laugh more than any comedian does he has such a brilliant outlook

Soooooo much wisdom in this. I can really feel this message. it explains certain peoples behaviors.

It's soooooo understandable if we are bored...all our lives we are constantly doing doing doing something or other... after we have tried everything to make us happy and see we have failed to get the full contentment we seek....we are bored with ALL worldly desires...then we can start to seek deep inside and find the truth.....we can actually experience and be infinite Divine peace and love and bliss.... the greatest wisdom is in advaita Vedanta non duality 🙏🕉️☯️☸️☮️

Thanks for teaching and sharing how to deal with a busy and nervous mind on my own

The more I watch these types of videos, and I'm not going to name names, you all know them, these spiritual gurus, the more I find myself in a situation that they are talking about at that moment and for which they claim to have the solution. Buying books and videos.

But when I'm okay, I can lie awake in bed, and I notice that I'm smiling all the time, remembering lovely situations, even to the degree of laughing out loud . My husband is used to it.

Phenomable ! My dear Echkart !, thank you from my being ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Henry David Thoreau

Ive allowed a sensation of lifetimes of boredom ❤go deep dude ❤😂

It's the first time you're addressing the issue of boredom and the search for stimuli, and how to manage it. Thank you.

So true but we need this as a continual reminder; old habits die hard

he is so funny and wise, he cracks me up good! Live laugh love

Wow, this video is so timely as I just lost my mobile 😅 I am noticing how much people use their phones now that I don't have one... I also wonder how it shifts our sense of identity.

I think in addition to being in the present moment we have to also change our negative thoughts into positive thoughts. Just my opinion. Affirming present tense positive thoughts are greatly helpful.

this is a brilliant answer- -stillness speaks- true knowledge and wisdom arise from thoughtless awareness. -alert presence - pure consciousness -essence identity stillness is wonderful

Listening to Eckhart as a way to escape boredom 🤫

I love it when Eckhart does a live question, always makes me so happy!!❤

This video is so necessary right now. I am SO BORED all the time. So i get on my phone, smoke a bowl, get a snack, anything else but be bored

@JohnPretty1

Ай бұрын

You've never meditated have you?

@rawr333r

Ай бұрын

@@JohnPretty1 yes I have

@rogathesarwatt

Ай бұрын

Switchoff the thinking part of brain strust me it work for me just try

He is so true. Soooo true

That’s good point all the problems human beings face those incapable things when they sat in quiet rooms

Thank you Echart it means so mich to me Love from Bharat 🇮🇳 (English word India) 🙏🏾🙇🏾‍♂️❤️

there is only one way - Be good, Do good, Live good

@Ajay-op6it

Ай бұрын

I hear you brother

@JohnPretty1

Ай бұрын

Mmm, very good.

His voice is a tonic.

Thank you, very much.

@specilegg

Ай бұрын

Jesus is the way 🕊️

@EckhartTolle

Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching.

This video was tremendously profound.

Thank u Master

Thank you sooooo Much! This rings with truth. I love it!

Thank you ❤

Your boredom is a mindset which is instilled by the controllers of your mind. Boredom is peace and awareness and brings out creative and cognitive thinking can manifest your dreams and plans rather than being complacent and not so wash, rinse, repeat.

Thank you 🙏

I felt the need to cry, then just relaxed and smiled, because I was okay. Apart from that, I also ended up falling asleep while just being. The quiet and stillness made me feel relaxed that I ended up falling asleep.

Thank you.

Excellent! 🙏🏼