Break Free from These Limiting Habits | Eckhart Tolle EP 394

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:10Is there anything else that you think hurts people from the law of attraction and manifesting what they want? We talked about the neediness and coming from a place of lack. Sometimes whatever people want to manifest comes from egoic place. The ego wants to, by achieving this or that, the ego wants to feel more powerful than before. It wants to have an enhanced sense of identity through it by showing to other people that you have more than others. It wants to show its superiority. The ego always looks for superiority. And so you may still get what you want, but your power will be greatly diminished if it's an egoic endeavor.

0:54But even with an egoic endeavor, sometimes even that it could still work with hard work and determination, you might get it. but it won't make you happy. When you get it very quickly, you will feel needy again. Why is it that people suffer and struggle when they have lots of money and have the big homes? Why this is still not enough? To the ego, it's never enough. Ego is a sense of lack, sense of not good enough, not enough yet. So it's never enough for the ego. And if you have everything that the world tells you, you really should be happy now because you've got, and I've met people like that, they've got money, they've got fame and recognition and the private debt.

1:41And that can be particularly bad, counterproductive, because you cannot fool yourself. The ego cannot fool itself by saying, when I get this, I'll be happy. You can still postpone. The ego can say, once I achieve that, I'll be happy. But the person who already has everything, He or she cannot say that anymore. There's no excuse anymore because you have everything and you're not happy. Very often people then start taking drugs, seeking sensory satisfaction through substances or going from one relationship into another and they get more and more unhappy. The ego was there. Ego will never be satisfied no matter what you achieve.

2:24how does someone be happy while they're on the path of trying to manifest more in their life a better relationship or better qualities that they have in the current relationship more career success money things like this how can they be happy no matter what happens it comes to you or it doesn't happiness starts if you're aligned with the present moment i sometimes call that the vertical dimension of life which is now and then there's a horizontal dimension of life is where it's past and future and you have a goal you're working towards that's fine you have the horizontal dimension and the vertical dimension is the present moment the horizontal dimension is a dimension of becoming you become good at something or you acquire something you become something there's an evolutionary process at work and that obviously has its place but if you are exclusively focused on becoming and achieving entertaining and acquiring, you're trapped on the horizontal and you can never really enjoy the present moment because the present moment is the vertical dimension.

3:31The deepest satisfaction is inseparable from going more deeply into the present moment and discover the essence of who or what you are as consciousness itself, presence here and now. In other words, you could say you sense the beings of you. You sense that you are. There is an enormous power there that has no form. You can't interpret it. It's the power of aliveness itself here and now. It goes far beyond who or what you are as a person. The person exists on the horizontal dimension, but there is a deeper dimension to who you are that is only discovered in the vertical dimension. In the vertical dimension, you are already complete.

4:18There's nothing to achieve. You're already full and complete. That's so hard for people to comprehend where they don't feel complete. On the horizontal, you're not complete and you'll never be complete. Because no matter what you achieve, if you become good at one thing, you lose something. There's always a world of polarities on the horizontal dimension. On the horizontal, there's always gain and loss. A gain has the Positive and the negative side, on the one hand, you can become stronger as you grow up. You can become more knowledgeable. You become wealthier. But eventually, the becoming becomes negative because then your body becomes weaker because you get old.

4:59Maybe you lose something. And then without access to the vertical dimension, nothing can satisfy you truly, purely on the horizontal dimension. when you look at another human being you interact with another human being on the one level you have the personality horizontal dimension the conditioning mental emotional conditioning you're interacting with a person you're also interacting with consciousness yes which is beyond the past and when you can sense the consciousness that you are is also the consciousness that the other person is, you can sense the oneness of that consciousness. And that sensing of oneness is ultimately the meaning of love.

5:43Love is to recognize the other as ultimately one with what you are. I would say love is the recognition of oneness. It's not the egoic love that says, I need you, don't you dare leave me because if you do, I'll hate you. But the real love is to recognize yourself in the other. But in order to do that, you need to first recognize yourself in yourself beyond the person. That connects you with other humans in a very different way, this sense of connectedness. Goodwill flows out from you towards others. Even others that you might only meet casually for a few seconds. You can sense an outflow of goodwill and connectedness and feel so good to recognize there is a human being there.

6:30The being is the essence of who you are. And it's our destiny to recognize our being, which is far beyond the person. And then you are a true human being when you realize the being of yourself, because then you cleanse it in others too. And then you can love others. That's the beauty of it.

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