Eckhart Tolle on the Role of Service in Spiritual Development

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Ай бұрын

Eckhart Tolle discusses the role of being in service to others in one's spiritual development. He explains that service can be a wonderful spiritual practice if it arises from the right place within, but it can also strengthen the ego if it comes from a different place. Eckhart Tolle emphasizes the importance of motivation in service, distinguishing between giving from a desire to improve self-image and giving without seeking recognition, which allows the energy to flow freely and aligns with the universe's source.
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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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@leonablack3516 Ай бұрын

At night before sleep I always pray for peace on this planet and for the oppressed to be free. I visualise healing hands and healing colours wrapped around this planet. No more suffering to animals.

@FloatingFont Ай бұрын

🤗.i was surprised to hear tolle isn't vegan ): i still follow him tho but i wish his teachings applied to all species

@KidForTodayBOC Ай бұрын

Thats is easy... try facing yourself.

@Janeoffools Ай бұрын

@@FloatingFont the reality is something has to die to put food on the plate. Just depends which way you approach it. I eat only grass fed animals from my own country. I don’t contribute to mono-cropping which is decimating wildlife nor do I pay for my food to shipped/flown all over the world. I think we can all agree factory farming is abhorrent but it’s not the only way.

@traceler Ай бұрын

@@Janeoffools regular folks with no wealth and living in cities have few choices and can not eat grass fed carnivore diet at all but be grateful with whatever help them get by and moderate fed.

@traceler Ай бұрын

@@FloatingFont Buddha and Christ were not vegan. Nothing especial or virtuous about being a "vegan" actually most vegans are in the West instead of the east and the West is not the most virtuous place in the world to say the less. Dalai Lama is not vegan neither, neither Rumi was vegan or even vegetarian leading to huge killings of insect, earth worms and sentient beings or deforestation to plant monocrops , the use of pesticides and the like.

@stephenflood3463 Ай бұрын

When we come across another human being in dire need or an animal in distress, because it's caught in a barbed wired fence or tangled up in a net, most peoples first instinct is to go and help them out. And I believe we do it out of the selfless love of our divine spirit and the recognition that they're a part of us and we're a part of them. So a service like that ain't out of ego or greed, but rather to help the light of our consciousness shine on. Thanks Eckhart.

@nirvana4623 Ай бұрын

What would you have done if you have found yourself in midst of a situation where group of dogs chasing a deer have surrounded a deer and you can save it. Also dogs seems hungry too.

@KidForTodayBOC Ай бұрын

you are lost

@alexvandertoorn4678 Ай бұрын

@@nirvana4623,what if does not exist

@jamesSwhite Ай бұрын

@@nirvana4623 What???? "...and you can save it." ? You f'ing save it. Or I'm seriously missing something here.

@EricPollarrd Ай бұрын

Called obligation.

@maryjaneball1757 Ай бұрын

This reassures me that staying present allows the service.I’ve always felt that I serve wherever I am in that moment.❤️🙏

@Shane7492 Ай бұрын

Love is the greatest service, because Love is the recognition of your being as the same being as all. If you want to serve in its highest form, simply Love everything unconditionally.

@LowWiseZahStudios Күн бұрын

truth

@johngreen4683 Ай бұрын

Doing absolutely no conscious harm to anyone anywhere is far more important than helping out a few people here and there , if absolutely everyone everywhere could find the humanity and humility to achieve the former, the later would very seldom be necessary 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@WilliamArthur20 Ай бұрын

That's not true. Helping other people is integral to our very nature. Without our ability to help, we rob ourselves of the capacity to learn the skills necessary to function as competent and generous individuals in society. We need that reciprocal arrangement for business, the economy, and peace in general. Without this, we descend into the prioritization of selfish and lowly values, which only hurt ourselves and others, even if indirectly.

@zo741 Ай бұрын

Najbolje je raditi ništa🤔 to je 0 i nema ni + ni - 😂😂😂

@leonablack3516 Ай бұрын

Too many take your kindness for weakness.

@leonablack3516 Ай бұрын

@@WilliamArthur20you obviously haven't suffered narcissistic abuse.

@aegdmw Ай бұрын

@@leonablack3516 , then because you know that , you have moved on and forgiven the person or persons who were doing it . Knowing it only to be a teaching tool for yourself

@LynB-mj9zk 22 күн бұрын

I do not know this man. But I love him already.

@midnightblue2893 Ай бұрын

Thanks for the reminders Eckhart that giving is not all about doing. Wishing you and everyone a wonderful week! 💜🙏💜

@stephenflood3463 Ай бұрын

Hi my love! Wishing you a wonderful week too!💜

@midnightblue2893 Ай бұрын

@@stephenflood3463 Thanks! 💜

@RichardK.Turner Ай бұрын

Cool video, My relationship of 5 years ended a month ago. The love of my life decided to move on, I really loved her so much i can't stop thinking about her and the memories we shared. I've tried my very best to get her back in my life, but to no avail. I'm frustrated, and i don't see my life with anyone else. I've done my best to get rid of the thoughts, but i can't. I don't know why I'm saying this here, but i really miss her and i wish i could get her back.

@JoshuaAltom Ай бұрын

have been in such a situation. My relationship ended about three years ago, but i could not let her go. So i had to do all i could to get her back, i had to seek the help of a spiritual adviser who helped me bring her back. We are back together, and i must say i am enjoying every moment.

@RichardK.Turner Ай бұрын

Amazing, how did you get a spiritual counselor, and how do i reach her?

@JoshuaAltom Ай бұрын

Her name is queen stella laveaux, and she is a great spiritual counselor who can bring back your ex.

@RichardK.Turner Ай бұрын

Thank you for this valuable information, i just looked her up now online. impressive

@KidForTodayBOC Ай бұрын

seek therapy..

@blackandgold676 Ай бұрын

When I am giving my time and energy at a particular venue for others, I've gotten to the point of such a "relaxed" state, of being with others there who are sick and suffering (physically and mentally) that I've learned to forget my needs. My phone is silenced and in my pocket. I have no watch; I'm simply "there". David Brooks and others have called it "Deep Listening" or "Radical Presence". It has a timeless and holy sense about it. Thank you, Lord!

@kencrotty3984 Ай бұрын

This is Eckhart in his best as his teaching; as EcKhart has said at other times, the Ego wants more, always more, an insatiable, unsatisfying treadmill-road to nowhere. Dr Eben Alexander puts it in a similar way to this youtube of Eckhart: 'Our true pure self is completely free; it is not crippled or compromised by past actions, or concerned with identity or status; it comprehends it has nothing to fear in this earthly realm. and therefore no need to build itself up through fame, wealth, or conquest.'

@KidForTodayBOC Ай бұрын

you have nothing to share

@Ikesz0108 Ай бұрын

Live your life, ride the wave and Love

@sunitakharatmal Ай бұрын

Very well explained. Many sages in 18th century have put this philosophy, that when we help others, the pride experienced is the form of your ego. One should consider themselves as a medium through which source of light flows to help others.

@dimitiek Ай бұрын

As a person who is always helping people this is a wonderful explanation of the right way to go about it. Thank you 🙏

@jim-se5xc Ай бұрын

The minute you become conscious you're doing good, thats the minute its time to stop, because from then on its wrong. Paula Fox

@KidForTodayBOC Ай бұрын

nice to point this out. nice ego.

@EricPollarrd Ай бұрын

@@KidForTodayBOClmao

@EricPollarrd Ай бұрын

@@jim-se5xccomplete twaddle

@DIAMONDheart888 Ай бұрын

Simply BE & that allows ALL to FLOW thru the BEing, for the highest good of all. 💎👑💎 NO thinking, the Pure Heart & Soul Knows.

@rezagatchpazian977 Ай бұрын

Amazing insight. Possibly the best dissection and explanation of this issue(doing good). Eckhart did it again❤

@KidForTodayBOC Ай бұрын

you said nothing

@TrgirlYt 25 күн бұрын

Send the vibration of peace to world from your inner light is real spiritual service

@SS-gs6tg Ай бұрын

Love that he references Jesus... 🎉

@InnerSpacebySun Ай бұрын

Ultimately, nothing is mine. That is true liberation. It gives me the courage to move forward because if "I" am doing this, I won't be able to keep doing.

@KidForTodayBOC Ай бұрын

you are lost, you dont even know what you are typing

@veraintuizione6497 Ай бұрын

🙏✨ Thanks so much for this necessary invitation to humility for this embrace of pure Consciousness.✨✨✨ 💓🙏✨✨✨🌸

@KidForTodayBOC Ай бұрын

get a life

@veraintuizione6497 Ай бұрын

@@KidForTodayBOC I am Life.🙏

@davidcunningham9247 17 күн бұрын

One of the best ways to stay sober is to give service at a 12step meeting

@user-yt4qi6in9o 17 күн бұрын

Probably a little more to reveal it possible for him and you are that reveal and the real deal and universe is a bit more fun with me or not a great to watch your energy bills on Saturday and I don't know

@berni4560 Ай бұрын

So beautifully explained what the greatest service is. Thank you!

@theotherway1639 Ай бұрын

Serving others is ultimately serving ourselves. Being kind to someone who is unkind to you...is being kind to yourself. Including someone who is not included...is including yourself.

@leonablack3516 Ай бұрын

You haven't experienced narcissistic abuse then. Many wolves in sheep's clothing walking on this planet. I will not be kind to people that have been unkind to me , I will just let them go.

@lenashaw-fp7vp Ай бұрын

The scorpion asked the frog to give it a lift on its back across the river, the frog said no you will sting me, the scorpion said sure then we will both drown. So the frog agreed. Half way across the river the scorpian stung the frog. The frog asked why did you sting me . The scorpion said because its my nature.

@lenashaw-fp7vp Ай бұрын

@@leonablack3516 i agree, we have to decern someones energy . Not all are good humans. We cant just be kind to those who intentionally want to hurt.

@leonablack3516 Ай бұрын

@@lenashaw-fp7vpyes when someone shows you who they are . Believe them. Empathy is a gift not all have it , Don't throw your pearls to swine.

@johngreen4683 Ай бұрын

When I do kind things I feel happy , when I do less than kind things, on reflection I ultimately feel less than happy with myself. Be nice to yourself by being nice to others, and on the days you just don't have it in you to be nice to everyone, then just choose not to be nasty to anyone 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@Soupersam09 Ай бұрын

Makes me think of covert narcissist who act very generous and giving but it is all serving self image

@kameljot7573 27 күн бұрын

There's definitely a beautiful soul behind those pretty eyes

@gabriellarujsz5741 Ай бұрын

Thank you Eckhart ❣️🙏🪽❤️🙏

@carmenr.r.8112 Ай бұрын

Gracias siempre 🙏 💜 🙇🏼‍♀️ 🌈

@jenniferpiercy8305 Ай бұрын

I wish you peace inside your soul❤🙏

@paulciaro158 Ай бұрын

This career shift seems like a natural development for DJ Bobo. Namaste DJ.

@beatereich5466 15 күн бұрын

At first I take care of myself first❤and then I truly can help others.....if I choose so. Because many people play the game " helpless".....don't take responsibility for their own life...

@dennisbergen7657 21 күн бұрын

Becoming a humble servant should be goal for all of us. Always think of others first. ❤️

@ehendriks100 20 күн бұрын

I don't think that that's the way, it must be in balans otherwise you're drained out. That's also what ET says.

@starlight27277 Ай бұрын

This is so true Eckhart.

@tamerelsaid6263 Ай бұрын

A narration of prophet Mohammed “Seven people will be shaded by Allah under His shade on the day when there will be no shade except His ....” He mentioned the rest of the narration, which says, “and a man who gives charity so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand has given.” God bless you Elkhart and all of you ❤

@DorisG232 Ай бұрын

You are amazing!❤️🙏🏽

@carlamccooke7296 Ай бұрын

With humility inside grace...deep gratitude love 💗🙏

@kelvinsnewsupdate7653 24 күн бұрын

Greetings !! Great Teacher.

@Rojayzee Ай бұрын

Tremendously helpful and timely perspective. Thank you! 🙏

@lymemj 24 күн бұрын

Thank youuu Eckhart 💝🙏

@gunelmustafayeva3981 28 күн бұрын

Thank you very much

@AndreA-uw8mc Ай бұрын

Thank you

@sofialopes9517 Ай бұрын

Perfect!

@giannibuffalo7 Ай бұрын

💪 Thanks! 🙏 Prayers

@anthonyangelis1094 Ай бұрын

thank you ❤ That was beautiful

@evavatsaki1305 29 күн бұрын

Beautiful, beautiful message thank you 🙏🏼

@sabineludwig6171 Ай бұрын

Thanj you very much❤

@naxhiedoda-fk9qr Ай бұрын

Thank you 💕🎉

@kathybudd7040 Ай бұрын

Thank you❤

@helixreggae 28 күн бұрын

Spot on, Regards, thank you.

@anniemesrobian8587 Ай бұрын

Thank you😊

@johnnymoondog Ай бұрын

Yes, its better to give than to receive !

@Wisk-mg4wh Ай бұрын

You should be my friend

@HeyY.T.StopDeletingMyComments Ай бұрын

@@Wisk-mg4wh✅️

@sunnyseacat6857 Ай бұрын

Giving is receiving.

@johngreen4683 Ай бұрын

@@Wisk-mg4wh 👍brilliant humour 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@lindaraereneau484 Ай бұрын

Both. When you sincerely receive, you give the person the give if giving. They are equal, like breathing in and out. When two people share a hug or kiss, each is both giving and receiving. There can be a lot of ego in wanting to only give. People who refuse to receive are people one may not want to interact with much. It's not mutual or two way. One begins to feel indebted. They are experienced as always pushing out, never open to receiving. Some givers see themselves as superior and stronger to people who they see as needing help.

@marcelagalvan6406 Ай бұрын

Maravilloso!!! Muchas gracias!❤

@naxhiedoda-fk9qr Ай бұрын

Soooo interesante!!!!!!!!!!!today all day long I think to myself about what's to help each other!!!!I just find your video! hopefully giving me answer ❤

@TunedByNature 19 күн бұрын

Beautiful. Thank you! ❤️

@user-sb2dd7xf7j 25 күн бұрын

spiritual service includes working on morals, serving others with morals - do not lie, steal, hurt others, on the system, in the family, in society. Do good.

@RN-wh5bk Ай бұрын

Connection with the spaciousness within is primary, then the energy that flows is not exclusive, but the universal one...

@NancyBeaulieu Ай бұрын

❤ You’re so amazing! Thank you for sharing this divine wisdom with us. I definitely want to keep my ego in check

@giselar.12 Ай бұрын

Wow, Dankeschön.🫶🕊️

@jozefzakopcan9000 Ай бұрын

Amazing talk...

@cherliest 21 күн бұрын

Thank you❤❤

@anthonylee9652 Ай бұрын

If we imagine ourselves as Stained Glass Windows through which the Eternal Light pours into this world and the colours find their way to those who either resonate with those colours or do not and if they do fine, if they do not nothing is lost.

@KidForTodayBOC Ай бұрын

please do not speak

@rocioguevaraobando9075 19 күн бұрын

Maestro Eckhart: Infinito Agradecimiento. 😊🌿🌸

@user-yt4qi6in9o 17 күн бұрын

Mucho grande ha I don't have to be in work at the minute of all

@user-yt4qi6in9o 17 күн бұрын

Oh dear that reveal that you are a bit more than the same place to go out and have no reason why you doing the rest and I will make sure

@melaniehellum1281 25 күн бұрын

That was interesting and true.

@mannie2075 Ай бұрын

You speak so very clear and I have noticed the two big digferences because I have been there 😂❤😝 Thank you so very very much and much love from Sweden and we are doing this together so beautiful video 🙏♥️✨🇸🇪🌏🎂🎉💃🏻🍀🌸☀️♊️💃🏻🎉

@mojca969 Ай бұрын

I loooove it! 🙏🏻🥰

@Corinnerinn Ай бұрын

This is so helpful thank you

@melaniestarkey7868 Ай бұрын

Her voice was like music very nice.

@user-cp6zb2zp1t 22 күн бұрын

beautiful lesson

@ChildofGod98765 Ай бұрын

Amen. Brother please keep me and my children in your prayers. Thank you God bless.

@josephrego2527 28 күн бұрын

Unconditional Love , as opposed to physical energy is eternal, spiritual and invisible. It has neither beginning nor ending as it's eternal. Love in the human or physical sphere, always has limitations as I cannot t possibly ever physically give without ultimately burning myself out. The only real love we can ever give, that's worth giving, is unconditional love. As it comes from my spiritual connection with its source and is therefore limitless.

@donaldgossett1736 22 күн бұрын

Essential Eckhart.

@barbaramcspadden8655 Ай бұрын

Because we can is why helping becomes an adventure to tell about. Like picking fruit after a farmer's is done harvest and trucking it to cold climate while attending a Peace conference. ❤

@KidForTodayBOC Ай бұрын

nonsense

@MrTetsukobu Ай бұрын

The only possible way to help others is by helping yourself with spiritual enlightenment. The rest are ephemeral, complicated recipes that produce furuncles in the mind.

@DarlingWheresthecoffee Ай бұрын

Amazing 🙏🏽

@balajib785 Ай бұрын

You only know what you did good to people nobody knows ❤

@bradybaas6389 Ай бұрын

IMAGINE THE POWER ON 🌏 IF IF UNCONSCIOUS REACTIVE EGO'S QUIT REACTING AND MADE FOCUSED THOUGHFUL DECISIONS FROM THE HEART❤ CENTER! IMAGINE THE POSITIVE KARMA FLOWING THROUGHOUT 🌏🌈🌠🌱💝🙏

@stephenflood3463 Ай бұрын

That would be awesome!👍

@KidForTodayBOC Ай бұрын

go to sleep.

@piwani5224 Ай бұрын

Danke für den Beitrag. Kann es sein , dass die Gegenwärtigeit hier nicht wirklich präsent ist? Ich danke dir für alles

@user-yt4qi6in9o 17 күн бұрын

Excellent thanks for asking about me to do

@shankarbalakrishnan2360 Ай бұрын

Why help anyone when not helped but sum total helps❤❤🎉🎉

@michepriest Ай бұрын

Such a great question and response. I’d like to understand how to be completely comfortable with charging money for doing/serving others

@nastasch Ай бұрын

what's the intention behind charging money for your service is the main or the only question to ask yourself. And as time goes by you have to keep asking yourself that same question. being totally honest with yourself no excuses. It's all about intentions. Being honest to yourself and to others. that's my two cents on this, coming from myself only. but I'm not that man.

@SaturnaliaJones Ай бұрын

I've finally come to understand money as energy, and exchange of money for service as exchange of energy. I struggled with this so hard that I abandoned my true calling. Also bartering and sliding scale help it feel less icky.

@helenconstantinou8721 Ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@maymei6742 Ай бұрын

My experiences have been not to do it .... there are too many unconscious people in my current spiritual group and most encounters have an unpleasant after taste ... So now I dont really see the need as all of us in essence are consciousness, never born and never die, they are good as they are

@KidForTodayBOC Ай бұрын

next time say something.

@maymei6742 Ай бұрын

@@KidForTodayBOC what are there to say... we are dealing with people strong identification, to challenge their believe is akin to we looking for suffering.... In Asia esp Chinese ethnicity, have very strong ego ie fear of death.. if we are to challenge their facemask behaviour your are just asking for trouble even though you show them the research papers

@sp-gw7zl Ай бұрын

If you give too much to others and become ill you run the risk of not only being burnt out yourself or worse bitter if no one helps you when your in need 💔

@beatereich5466 15 күн бұрын

Stopp it to give too much. Whats the use? At first you need to take care of yourself first❤❤❤ You need to be in a good way. Otherwise you truly have not to give anything.....if you choose so. Be Gentle and loving with yourself! Nobody will do it for you. All the best ❤❤❤hello from Austria.

@robertgregory5485 Ай бұрын

5/24 good one complete

@christinevandenberg8 Ай бұрын

🙏❤️

@schwanensee4488 Ай бұрын

There are a lot of social persons in social care sytems which doing it so obvious for themself. Not only to feel better for themself - thats at least somesting that each of us can understand i guess - but for power over others. 'Weaker' people can defend themself so good because they have empathy and want feel others to feel bad, and so the power hungry like to tell them how world goes and what they have to do and not to do, order them around in a sort of way, and not really helping for giving help. Always care for others 'and' yourself, one sided is never good.

@andrewminjiras5745 Ай бұрын

I would love to hear about your concept or idea concerning the afterlife. I read your essays but have not come across your belief about the next planes of existence. Thank you

@lindakarlsson5474 Ай бұрын

❤

@user-mm6fc5mn6m Ай бұрын

❤🙏

@rogerlin9602 Ай бұрын

3:50 Ego is inner mirror of yourself. You are not yourself. Your live in mirror image.

@KidForTodayBOC Ай бұрын

you dont know what youre on about

@johngreen4683 Ай бұрын

@@KidForTodayBOC why so unkind to so many people , do you need a hug? 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@jessicapatton2688 Ай бұрын

I try to live a life of service. I don’t worship money, fame, status, power, or self. I don’t care for acquiring material things. I only want to wake up again. My service life might not be coming from the perfect place in me tho. I understand what you meant by that. I suffered a lot of abuse and trauma in my life. It makes me question if I am actually “good” or not. Or is this just ego coming in the back door. All self help is ego trying to be better. How can you win tho? The evil in me gets buried cause I really desire to be a good person. I guess until one looks at their dark side you are at risk of projecting your flaws onto others. Idk where to go from here. Anyone else in as much of a mental mess as me?

@butreallydoh8133 11 күн бұрын

All your feelings make sense. He did say it begins with the ego, however you do truly want to be a better person and the more good we do the brighter we get right?

@sohocraft 16 күн бұрын

❤🙏🏻

@jennifers6435 Ай бұрын

🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

@jlmur54 26 күн бұрын

Can someone tell me more about the meaning of the two hand gestures?

@Z-A-C Ай бұрын

How do i respond to “TAKE YOUR MEDS”???

@cherieuk4488 Ай бұрын

You watch how you respond to "take your meds".

@yonah9983 29 күн бұрын

Is anybody know the explanation or have the link to the two triangles you discussing at the end

@veroniqueverstichelen7371 Ай бұрын

🙏🌌💚

@user-yt4qi6in9o 17 күн бұрын

Oh dear that reveal that

@robertopuccianti8498 Ай бұрын

🙏🧡🔥🌻

@clairelin7101 Ай бұрын

很可惜繁體中文總是無法翻譯 😢

@arnoldsarmiento2958 Ай бұрын

I didn’t understand the concept of “being”. Please can someone explain. Thanks

@sunitakharatmal Ай бұрын

Being, it means be in your full awareness or consciousness where your egoic mind is paused when you are in surrounding. One can gain it through regular meditation practice.

@johngreen4683 Ай бұрын

Being is surely not thinking, but simply just being 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@vectorequilibrium4493 Ай бұрын

Presence. The here and now moment. That which is.

@johngreen4683 Ай бұрын

@@vectorequilibrium4493 absolutely, that which is without thought 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@KidForTodayBOC Ай бұрын

you are wasting space.