![]() Oprah: You see that in every person that you encounter?Įckhart: Yes. On another level, they are the consciousness that I also am, that pure essence. On one level, they are the form, which is the body and their psychological makeup. Then, when I meet people and interact with people, I see them on two levels or feel them on two levels. So, I call love the recognizing of yourself in the other, and yourself your essential self. It doesn't mean give your neighbor tickets to the theater or whatever. You're not saying love your neighbor as yourself-not as yourself the personality. And so, what you're saying is so beautiful. And then you can love your neighbor as yourself because you recognize your oneness with your neighbor. But they have been finding it difficult because loving your neighbor as yourself really means, first of all, you need to be in touch with yourself, the self that you are beyond the form. For example, some people have been trying for centuries to love their neighbor as themselves. ![]() Because trying to be good is often to improve one's self-image.Įckhart: Ultimately, it's ego. ![]() Oprah: This is one of my favorite quotes of yours: "You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you and allowing that goodness to emerge." Again, we're talking about going to presence, the divine within you, and bringing that forth to whatever it is you do.Įckhart: Yes. You let me know if it does, because I wouldn't know it if it's really the ego. Who knows? Tomorrow it may suddenly appear again. This conversation was taken from the new book The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights from Super Soul Conversations.Įckhart: Well, let's see. Oprah and Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now, discuss a fresh way to understand our relationships and ourselves. ![]()
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