…pain? Because the addiction itself magnifies the pain. It multiplies it. It increases it exponentially. So it begins in pain. As Eckhart Tolle, the spiritual teacher, says, addictions begin in pain and they end in pain. Well, it was on this stage last year…

…freedom is not simply an external factor. In fact, significantly, it's an internal factor. It requires consciousness. I think you've had Eckhart Tolle here, have you? Yeah, Eckhart a few times. Oh, you've already had him a few times. Oh, okay. Twice. We'll…

…a mental, spiritual shift, and you found peace inside and acceptance. I know that you... I really appreciate the writing of Eckhart Tolle. And as you describe in your book, he has a very similar experience. He doesn't go through drugs and withdrawal, but…

…to anybody else. You can manifest it. People can maybe sense it when you're in your presence, but you can't give it to them. Eckhart Tolle can't give it to them either. They come to it on their own or they don't. You say something, I heard it in a…

…what we have to work on. There's a spiritual teacher who lives in Vancouver, like I do in Canada. His name is Eckhart Tolle. And Tolle says that there's no free will without awareness. And I completely agree with him. So that without awareness, we're…

…to work on. There's a spiritual teacher who lives in Vancouver, like I do in Canada. His name is Eckhart Tolle. And Tolle says that there's no free will without awareness. And I completely agree with him. So that without awareness, we're like Pinocchio, a…

…is life-affirming and life-giving and it releases all kinds of energies that I appreciate. First of all, I don't know what an Eckhart Tolle or Hamid Ali might say about this or Adyashanti, but they might say something like, the seeking itself is a stance…

…that disconnection assumes. Now this definition that Peter gives is also the one given by other great spiritual teachers. Eckhart Tolle says, basically all emotions are modifications of one primordial undifferentiated emotion that has its origin in the loss of…

…blame. But what's lacking there, guilt is an act of the ego. If we realize that the ego is not personal, as Eckhart Tolle teaches, which it isn't. It's universal, really. What the ego does is not personal neither. But the ego loves to make everything…

…spiritual shift yeah and you found peace inside yeah and acceptance i know that you I really appreciate the writing of Eckhart Tolle. And as you described in your book, he has a very similar experience. He doesn't go through drugs and withdrawal, but…

…to anybody else. You can manifest it. People can maybe sense it when you're in your presence, but you can't give it to them. Eckhart Tolle can't give it to them either. They come to it on their own or they don't. You say something, I heard it in a…

…or denial or repressing emotions. Trauma then shows up basically as a limitation, as a constriction. When you read Eckhart Tolle, you really appreciated... It's teaching about being in the present moment. And what trauma makes it impossible for people…

…pain? Because the addiction itself magnifies the pain. It multiplies it, it increases it exponentially. So it begins in pain, as Eckhart Tolle, the spiritual teacher says, addictions begin in pain and they end in pain. Both my addictions, the work was very…

…Well is that dynamic a surprise to you or is it not? Do you not know it yourself? No I do. Yeah. Eckhart Tolle, the spiritual teacher, says that some people can embody what he calls being, where they're really truly present and channel truth in…

…disease and cancer and degenerative nervous system disorders and so on, because of the unshakable unity of mind and body. Eckhart Tolle was a spiritual teacher. He said that the greatest achievement of humankind is not its architecture or art or scientific…

…like whatever my dad would recommend to me to like help ameliorate my... various kinds of woe in my adulthood, like reading Eckhart Tolle or something. It's just like, no, that's your thing. Don't stop trying to change me or fix me, which I'm sure was…

…that pause moment for you to share your no without saying no right away. What are your thoughts on that? Well, Eckhart Tolle, who is another Vancouver-based teacher, internationally very well known, I'm sure very well known to this audience, he talks about…

…kinds of dysfunctional behaviors uh including behaviors very often that I wish I could redo and do differently. But, like again, as Eckhart Tolle says, the ego is not personal. So I'm not, I'm not being pejorative towards myself when I tell you that I've…

…pain? Because the addiction itself magnifies the pain. It multiplies it. It increases it exponentially. So it begins in pain, as Eckhart Tolle, the spiritual teacher, says, addictions begin in pain and they end in pain. Well, it was on this stage last year…

…that disconnection assumes. Now this definition that Peter gives is also the one given by other great spiritual teachers. Eckhart Tolle says, basically all emotions are modifications of one primordial undifferentiated emotion that has its origin in the loss of…

…formless source. And the more I read this, the more infuriated I get, Zenyatta. Not at you, but at this message. And Eckhart Tolle, another great teacher, talks about how we're being, and we're not the egoic mind, and we're presence. When I hear this…

…it. That's the very nature of the thinking mind. That itself is a representation of addiction. And it's very self-oriented. As Eckhart Tolle points out, that the structure of the egoic mind is wanting. The wanting is structural. What we want may change. So…

…beings, we're all like a bunch of tits walking around looking for the nipple. Well again, that's just another way of saying what Tolle also says, is that the wanting is structural. So that when you say to yourself, I'm an addict, no you're not, you're a…

…So I'd say that on the body level, you can tell the difference about what you're experiencing inside. So the spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, who lives in Vancouver like I do, he says, and I've learned a lot from his work, he says somewhere that emotions…

…pain? Because the addiction itself magnifies the pain. It multiplies it. It increases it exponentially. So it begins in pain, as Eckhart Tolle, the spiritual teacher, says, addictions begin in pain and they end in pain. Well, it was on this stage last year…

…is how it is. And then what do we do? Well, there's a clip I was going to play you by the spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle that I've just been watching. But I couldn't make it work mechanically, but I'll try and paraphrase it for you. He said, the…

…when I read Rumi's poetry or Hafiz's poetry or I read Jesus or I read the Buddha or I read you or I read Eckhart Tolle or any one of these people, something in me knows what they're talking about and recognizes it and gets the truth of it even.…

…me, and the reason it surprised me is because in none of the recordings of yours that I've heard, or the recordings of Eckhart Tolle, or recordings of H. Almas, or any of the great spiritual teachers of our time, does the word trauma, as far as I…

…No, it goes without saying that addictions will also create many more problems and make you suffer. That's the nature, as Eckhart Tolle said, addictions begin in pain and end in pain. That's true. But we have to understand the pain that addictions…

…piece of meat. You don't have to be cured. You just need to integrate. And that's a lifelong process. And again, as Eckhart Tolle says, that for some people it happens as a sudden illumination. That's essentially what happened to him. But for more people,…

…what I'm still carrying. What is the explosive charge? What is the unresolved trauma that's actually being activated here? And as Eckhart Tolle, the spiritual teacher says, be at least... That doesn't mean that we should be sitting ducks and sort of willing…

…of one people onto another people. We're here today. Yeah. And loving embrace. Yeah. So the past trauma does happen. And Eckhart Tolle, the spiritual teacher, talks about the pain body, which is really our accumulated traumas that affect us. And he talks…

…an abandoned, highly traumatized child, they just don't deal with the trauma. And you and I, in our respective books, both quote Eckhart Tolle, who says that addictions begin in pain and end in pain. Now, the 12 steps seem to recognize the pain that…

…them is a perfectly valid aspiration. The addict just wants to feel like a human being. And we already know, I mean, the Eckhart Tolle quote that you and I both employed, addictions begin in pain and end in pain. So we know the pain that the addiction…

…freedom is not simply an external factor. In fact, significantly, it's an internal factor. It requires consciousness. I think you've had Eckhart Tolle here, have you? Yeah, Eckhart a few times. Yeah. Oh, you've already had him a few times. Oh, okay. All…

…your spiritual belief, I hear very often, yes, I believe in this bigger power, but it's not one thing. And it's like what Eckhart Tolle said, every religion is like the finger showing to the truth or pointing to the truth, but it's not the truth itself.…

…like everything is gone. You're in a void. In my mind, it's a physical manifestation of that portal into the unmanifest, like what Eckhart Tolle talks about. The portal is into the unmanifest and the power of now. I'll take you up on it for sure. It's…

…don't try to manifest that happening to get that result. Yeah, you're right. But I think what you're also speaking about, Eckhart Tolle speaks a lot about, and that's acceptance, accepting where you are. If you can't accept your position, eventually we are…

…from this minute to the next, whole of humanity attained Buddha consciousness, or Jesus consciousness, or Adyashanti consciousness, or Eckhart Tolle consciousness. What would happen? Well, all of a sudden, people would feel, people would be who they are.…

…wondered if you had any thoughts about that. Well, thank you. It's a very common dilemma. So the spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle, says that intuition's gut feelings are your body's response to the world but emotions are your response body's response to…

…breath because to go back to the question of what people can do for themselves, they can learn to breathe. And Eckhart Tolle, a spiritual teacher, he says that rather than go to retreats and therapists, just take a few conscious breaths several times…

…position of inner peace that we can speak compassionately and truthfully to others, that we can serve our other goals. But Eckhart Tolle talks about our inner purpose and our external purpose. And you stated a bunch of external purposes. And that's why…

…for a moment to find a quote on my cell phone 100 yeah yeah so this is um are you familiar with the work of Eckhart Tolle Oh, Eckhart Tolle, yes. Okay, yeah. So Tolle lives in Vancouver like I do. And in one of his books, he says, the normal state…

…to find a quote on my cell phone 100 yeah yeah so this is um are you familiar with the work of Eckhart Tolle Oh, Eckhart Tolle, yes. Okay, yeah. So Tolle lives in Vancouver like I do. And in one of his books, he says, the normal state of mind of…

…cell phone 100 yeah yeah so this is um are you familiar with the work of Eckhart Tolle Oh, Eckhart Tolle, yes. Okay, yeah. So Tolle lives in Vancouver like I do. And in one of his books, he says, the normal state of mind of most human beings contains…

…required and working with a sacred plant, they needed me to be really clear. And they said, you're not. So, yeah. And speaking of Eckhart Tolle, by the way, he said somewhere, it might be in the new earth, but it might be in the power of now, I…

…all kinds, meditation, mindfulness, vipassana, ten days of silence. There's the work of Almas and his diamond approach. There's Eckhart Tolle and his wonderful teachings in his books and seminars. There's here in California, I think, Adyashanti, who's a great…