I've been suffering from Long Covid for over two years now. It had stripped away all that I thought I was. I can not exist how I used to and my ego is definitely dying. I lost my job, wife, house, ability to exercise, mental sharpness and balance. Months ago I was tetering on existence. I am still in the grips of the Dark Night of the Soul but somehow everyday, I manage to put one foot in front of the other. This must be my true self carrying forward. I try and remain hopeful that better days are to come but sometimes, it really is lot to handle. I have deepened my empathy to a level I never knew existed so I guess that's as good a place as any to start from. I truly wish everyone reading this a good life and a positive outcome from our current state of the world. Thank you.
@@MrEmotional33 Yikes, man. I am sorry you feel this way. It must be hard being so isolated. Can you get out of the house and volunteer or interact? How is your health? I hope you can find a way to change your situation. Sometimes loneliness and isolation move us toward change. Also, if depression is a factor, a counselor, physician, or chaplain may help. Wishing you better times.
I'm in a dark night of the soul right now. I've completely lost my identity and my old life has collapsed beneath me. Terrifying, but I'm trying to find my way. Nothing seems to matter anymore. I am so grateful for this message by Eckhart Tolle. It has been like a breadcrumb on the path and has helped to explain the predicament I find myself in at this point on my journey. To anyone else out there going through this, Hang in there and know you are not alone.
I know, what you mean. I have been through it. And what comes afterwards is the most beautiful thing you now cannot imagine!! Just keep looking for the one who is aware of all that Much love ❤❤❤
I lost my mind, not in an delusional way-in a purposeful way. I lost my persona. I was always a goal oriented person with courage. I suddenly couldn’t even choose items at the store. My hands started to shake, I became homeless. I could only sit at the coffee shop and stare out the window. I just kept going without a purpose. It was the change of life circumstances that slowly but gradually started to show me that I was to believe in the universe over myself because I was no longer in control. I realize now how blessed I was and how I am GRATEFUL to have made it through!
I'm coming to that same situation now, it's amazing how life just organises itself when you're not thinking or planning it, almost like everything is scripted
@@naurinsaba979 I let the universe take over. It was a test and I had no control, so I just had to let go and I finally ended up in a peaceful and prosperous living situation.
When they said she was going crazy, she was awakening. When they said that she was isolating, she was healing. When they said she was acting funny, she was growing. When they said that she had changed, she was evolving. When they said she did not care anymore, she finally realized that her peace lives within.
dont conclude things in that way..you are stopping the possibilities ahead..too lazy to deal with fact..and then fantasizing things...one must always be ready for anything..the flexibity is emptiness..not something like you mention..the happy mode..grow up brother
"The more you surrender, the more quickly you go through it. Surrender means don't judge it anymore. You accept whatever it is that you experience at this moment." "Not everybody has to go through that. For many people, the awakening process starts and begins without that." "Allow life to do what it does." Thank you Eckhart.
@@lindakoch9524 I use the words "everything is here to help me" - Matt Khan. Be patient because you need to use to your new paradigm-change your subconscious mind.
@@lindakoch9524 surrender means that you stop resisting the negative emotions that you are feeling, allow yourself to feel those emotions, eventually they will disappear, I'm doing it right now it works
@@Stellagalloway444 I've been going through it for a year and a half, I highly recommend the book "Letting go" by David Hawkins, it teaches you how to surrender negative emotions and find inner happiness, it takes time but it really works
It went through when I lost everything including my home, money, everything and was homeless and impacted by Covid twice. My only son died from a drug overdose and his life ended tragically. It started in 2021 and two years later I’m starting to see the light. It was a spiritual crisis and I questioned if God was real. I questioned my faith and was disillusioned about everything and I thought everything was fake and no point. I was stripped of everything that I thought was my identity. It was and is the hardest season of my life and I thought I would die and was even suicidal and depressed and the light of my indigenous, ancestral medicine carried me through.
Ummm that's not true at all, my wife has stage 4 cancer and is NOT going to be okay... she will die from the cancer and there's no "getting through it" no matter how much positive thinking or new age BS you want to believe in 🙄
@@paulking9479 there are choices and thats what makes it so hard. if was no choice- no problem. but when you need to do certain things, that are extremely difficult or involve serious suffering... its really tough.
It happened to me when I FINALLY retired and bought a house in the country. Something I thought for so long would give me true peace and happiness. It didn't at all. It felt so empty. I went into a deep depression. I've slowly been peeling away layers of my ego since then. Thank you Ekhart for helping me on this "journey "
We have to place our perceived fear and anxiety into God’s hands, then let all questioning go. In fact, every moment lived in his presence and guidance will give you daily peace and joy. Surrender to God’s love.. And question nothing, just accept, then everything changes, it does not stay in one way. Then, your life magically takes on a different form. It could look completely opposite. That what you thought was futile, by the Holy Spirit is changed.
Often have dark nights of the soul as a mother who lost two sons recently One to suicide , my son was intelligent and a father to my only grandchild 😢 The other son had been extremely successful in business , he didn’t lack anything However , his life to a turn for the worst , he became homeless , a drug addict And eventually on life support in hospital , a decision was made to release him From Life support , he died 20mins later , and before he died he was able to expel A teardrop from his left eye , letting me know he was so sorry to be leaving us . Heartbreaking 💔 leading to my own Dark Night of the Soul Yet have survived due to greater happiness in the knowledge his was not the reality of all of our lives , my sons had also lived very positive lives amen 🙏 Mary Canada 🇨🇦
God and Goddess Bless you! I recently went through a very trauma filled time and lost a family member while dealing with severe pain. Nothing made sense but now my well of empathy is deeper....I'm sending you love and hugs.
I recently lost my 3 brothers - there were 4 of us. I had no other siblings. I am the only one left. My divorced parents are estranged and abusive; so I steer clear as much as possible. My adult son lost his mind when his uncles died and now I have seemingly lost him to dozens of hospitalizations in the last couple of years since my brothers died to substance abuse and suicide. I will continue to pray for my son. It seems hopeless on the outside but I won’t give up hope!
Wow, this is intense. My heart melts. These are extreme circumstances to go through for both you and your son. My prayers are with you now. I know this was one year ago approx and wonder how you and your son are doing. Almighty God be with you.
Omg I will pray for you. How are you doing now? How are your son? I have family members who tries to destroy my daughter and me. They think Im crazy but Im awakening and it has been an intense yourney cause Ive gotten fooled so much by people around me. I trust to easily and people are narcs. I had to block my mom too, she is a narsisist.
I’ve had a few dark nights of the soul, firstly after narcissistic abuse and then again when repressed childhood trauma surfaced. It came in stages and I experienced a lot of pain, but when i I faced it, it dissolved and transmuted into deep bliss and love ❤❤❤
@@te-aramcinman8851 haha 😂 yes not a fan either but always well worth it out the other side 😅 the alchemy part can be sooo painful but remembering it’s just a process to be observed and moved through helps, as well as connecting with other people who are going through this so I don’t feel so alone 🤗💝
i recently went through this myself, Eckhart explained it perfectly. Nothing made me happy anymore, nothing made me feel better anymore, i had lost complete touch with reality, as soon as i woke up i just couldn't wait until i could go to sleep again.., it's painful. But whoever is going through it rn, reality wants you to become the person you were meant to be, but to do that you're old self must be destroyed. It might seem scary, but it wouldn't happen to you if you wouldn't be able to handle it. We are never in control anyways, that's just what the ego believes, we can't change what happens only how we react to it. Surrender to the experience and just accept whatever you're dealing with. This too shall pass
I joke that sleeping is my hobby. It was the only rest I got from a violent home as a child. It’s nice to find others to hold hands with a little bit in this storm
My dark night of the soul was my sons suicide. I have realised since that he left this earthly realm because his body was not working for him anymore. He was the brightest light that now shines in the universe… I can’t wait until we meet again 🙏❤️
My wife of 41 years merges back to the universe 9/1/21. 18 months of meaninglessness, wrongness, pointlessness... all of me. Consumed. Suicide was close many times in despair. Nothing looks right. No faith remains. EVERYTHING you say Eckhart. 27 months now. My precious daughter handed me the Power Of Now. Your book and my work in it has saved my life, not metaphorically sir, not metaphorically at all. In real, grounded sense I want to live. I want to love, and I will again - with my memories and experience as I continue to "awaken". Thank you. It is happening. Palms together, I hear. One thought - nothing real is threatened, nothing unreal exists. Life changing.
I have been feeling this for months now and its a very, strange place to be, it's like being completely lost and looking for straws to grab hold of, which disintegrate when you reach out for them. It's like being on an inescapable island , it's just very scary, very lonely and a neverending feeling of dread and discomfort. It just feels bad to be in your skin and experience the thoughts constantly running through your mind. I don't know what triggered it, but it's not a good place to be. I will watch this video several times as it may help the fear and depths of despair I'm in. Thank you for making this.
Wow, I am 65 an experience the same thing. I am not alone. It affects me more to realize I am mortal after surviving a heart attack and my wife surviving cancer patient. My brother is in another country and we doesn't want to have any relationship after passing of our parents. It feels I lost him and the grief is hitting me. I can swim with the life current. It is hard and lonely and scary. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Wendy, it’s a year later- how are you? I pray you’ve not only weathered it but have experiences some level of transformation. Life can sit on us like a million tons of rock, pressing down and squeezing until it feels as though there is not even one drop left. Spiritual growth is no walk in the park.
I picked up my 4yr old from school and was watching a video of yours. She asked, "Mommy, what are you doing?" I said, watching my favorite spiritual mentor speak, his name is Eckhart Tolle. She repeated your name in question form, w/her lil child like voice. I said Yes... Eckhart, the one who wrote a book that changed my life forever! She seemed very curious so I paused the video and showed her your picture. She looked at you w/this surprised face, like she knew you, then pointed at you, and said OOOOHHH Yeah!! I LIKE HIM MOMMY! I replied, I like him too honey... mommy loves him! Thank You for ALL YOU ARE Eckhart! 🙏❤️🙏🙇♀️
Sometimes it's hard to believe that this "dark night of the soul" is for a higher purpose; it seems like it's just pain, with no purpose, no meaning, that we are forgotten in this life. But it's comforting to think that there's a greater purpose to it.
A collapse of a perceived meaning in life. That’s the best way to describe the dark night of the soul experience. It’s dreadful. But it will be beautiful in time. Thank you 🙏🏻 ✨
Having a hope means that you don't believe, you just hope. Just believe and imagine yourself being healthy. Then you subconscious mind will reprogramm.
I'm on this stage and suffering. I'm from Chiang Mai, Thailand. My home was heavily flooded last month,I spent all my savings, I lost my job and broke up with the relationship. I don't know what to do and feel hopeless about the future. I have to stay home with nothing to do. I talked to my friends and one of them told me that she thinks I'm in the dark night of the soul so I started to listen to the podcast and read about it. I let everything go as it be, SURRENDER. I work with my egos and chakra. I'm grounding, connect with nature and meditation. Now I feel better. My money situations are in critical stage but I feel more calm and trust the power inside me that I can handle with it soon. Thanks for this valuable video. ❤
For the last 9 months I have been experiencing the dark night of the soul. through my son's unexpected departure. I found him on March 1st.2022. He was my only child. He is a beautiful, successful, funny, witty, handsome and 35 years old at the peak of his life. This feels like a heavy blanket of sadness that sometimes overtakes me. Thank you
I feel your pain having found my son hanging last year. It truly is the worst pain in human life but I know the universe is full of their beautiful souls it was just their bodies that let them down god bless you 🙏❤️
I had this in Oct. 2007. It was extreme and radical. I thought I was dying. All I can say is if someone goes through something like that is just calm yourself and trust God. Ride it out.
True that! The resistance just binds. I leaned into a lot of pain today. It felt like it was a hatchet and I was already bleeding but that imagined hatchet just disappeared and I felt calm -for 5 while minutes
I lost my son in 2021. I went through the dark night of the soul, completely empty, I at some stage didn't know who I was anymore, life stopped. I realized one day that I had stopped thinking and the first reaction was, you can't live if you can't think, but I was breathing, I was very confused. My life as I knew and understood it, was gone, just gone. I eventually ask Google if it's possible to not think but still be and that's how I found Ekhart. The problem I find now, is I am still in the same environment, amongst the same people, I have changed but they haven't, they no longer understand me. Thank you.
@@johngarrity6687 I accept my son's passing am at peace with this, content, I am finding that difficult, nothing is what it was and my now just is, now, almost meaningless but not. Difficult to explain.
@@kaplyn6580 Thanks for replying. I read that cultivating compassion and doing intentional good works for others (alleviating suffering) is v meaningful. I do think it possible to find a supreme presence and to rest in that space. Is that too far out for you? Best to you on your journey.
Everything in our lives is temporary. We know that intellectually, but often act as if people & things are permanent. This a perfect recipe for further suffering! Everything has been stripped away from me, but I probably needed it to be so to truly find my Beloved - my God,
We lost our 22-year-old boy last year. He was the joy he was our star bright of our lives our only son. Everything apparent would want UCLA graduate surfer Marathon runner friends loved ones everybody loved our son. I'm just like that we got the phone call. Are so-called world was gone absolutely in abyss. Total loss total confusion. It's been a year but slowly surely that we are evolving. Thanks eckart for your shares. Piece everyone. Surrender. 🙏
@@majbrittlunaleth3600this wisdom is universal. In that sense, you are right. It is not his wisdom. It is wisdom that is actually expressing to the world through him. I haven’t read the authors you are mentioning but I’m sure they are expressing the same Wisdom. ❤
It's been over a month for me now... I'm amazed this clip came in my thread. I told my mum and my house mate I feel like I've lost my identity, the person I was last year in that amazing job. Not knowing what I'm good for now . I've put so much meaning to my old self... Tried desperately to get back into it and applied for jobs the past weeks because I wanted my old self / life back. 3 days ago I've dropped the thought and the 'want'. I have put my 'me' from last year ' finally to rest'. Including tears, anger, feeling of guilt and shame of all the mistakes I made... I stayed in my room a lot, didn't want to go outside at all and turned into a hermit. Today was the first day in a total of 6 weeks where I felt content and at peace and I actually smiled. So whoever is going through it I send you the strength not to go stubbornly against the death of ego and made up ideals, like I have. 🙏🌻🙏
@@olinafan4459 if you are ok to try a few things there is free Isha kriya meditation in TH-cam or Sadhguru app millions of people do it maybe give it a go(try to complete mandala) it will definitely help in the healing process something is better than nothing And also as someone who was depressed for few years physical exercise and getting in touch with nature fresh air made huge difference it's your decision I know you can decide what's best for you ❤️❤️❤️ You got this
I went through this too, about 8 years after losing my daughter. I can describe it as being completely gutted ( not grief) and devoid of any sense of ambition, drive or purpose. There is nothing that can be done to alleviate it apart from sleep. You feel completely abandoned but i instinctively knew that i just had to wait it out.
@@OLLYCHAUCER I am sure that your daughter is in total bliss, and happiness. We--the ones left behind---are the ones suffering. BUT...the DAY is coming ♥
To all the people who are passing through this phase of self growth, I want to assure that it will soon be over and on the other side you would find yourself much more peaceful, more in control of your life, more loving and devoted towards the God. I also went through such phases where everything seemed negative and hurtful. I used to be anxious and lived every moment in anxiety and fear. Couldn't even sleep. But it passed away and now I feel much more stronger and powerful than I was back then. You will come out of it stronger and better. Your fears will go away gradually. It is period of special growth and it is a gift of Grace from the Lord because he loves you.
I went through the darkest of times and almost lost my life due to alcoholism. I believe my case involved depression and witch-craft and it was destroying my life. But I have come out as a totally new man with a real purpose. Fasting and meditation accelerated my growth, as I started asking profound questions and looking for the truth in everything. I have made several realizations on my own while meditating that I now hear experts say/confirm. It's like I have tuned into the frequency of the universe where things beyond the world we see start to made sense. It's beautiful and I'm glad I went through all of that pain and suffering, because although it caused me to hit rock bottom and break into a million pieces, it's given me the opportunity to rebuild myself into the man I have always wanted to be... Trust me, when you come out of it, you will begin to see the beauty in small things that almost everyone takes for granted or ignores... Why? Because by the time you come out of the darkness, you will probably have lost almost everything you previously perceived as important.
There are always dear Humans who need some caring and love. Move out of the Dark Night into a morning of service to others - old people placed in retirement centers and forgotten, young children who spend days in uncaring Day Care while parents must work. Volunteer ! The joy and meaning you share is transforming for you and others.
I went through a dark night of the soul since 2001 when i received Jesus,it was as if the lights went out inside me. I was just existing but no longer thriving. Through the process i learned that i was being stripped of everything and anything that can keep me away from God. In a sense i was being broken down inside before i got rebuilt. My only solace of peace over the years was staying close to god by prayer, reading His Word, and worship and last was stillness by just submitting or surrendering to God's Hand. It made the process more bearable but i was detached from self and the world. A lot of dark things hidden in me were being brought to the surface to deal with. Today i have since experienced His presence in my life again and can tell you today it was worth the wait and toil. I hope this testimony may help someone going through something similar, shalom!
@@gloriouslyaesthetic sorry for the late reply, its crucial to get in God's Presense daily by just being still and focusing on just Him, a quiet and imperceptible exchange happens, then after you feel ready you can worship or pray, but its all Him that does the changing, the filling up of His love in your heart to be able to love others, to finally feel complete and satisfied. He is the source of everything good. BUT we as humans, we leak. That is why i say to get in God's presence daily, this is how you grow and walk in the Spirit, He does all the work, you simply be still, shalom.
I started my spiritual journey a year ago and literally had lots of healing. It really showed me that I can handle anything. If I can do so can anyone! It takes time and it’s worth it. Trust God he will guide you. I promise you it’s very worth it. Wishing you luck and love ❤
At 77 every night is dark with only my soul, feeling the withering, the dark is settling in. In a life so remembered, so vivid, now so slowed, cautious, tentative, when I was once all energy, all doing ..of course the empty comes in. Never thought there was, HAD TO BE, purpose, meaning...but it didn't matter, now it seems like... It should have. No trauma, no event, just the slow unravelling to ...nothingness. my mind had given a meaning it seemed, but when it slowly evaporates...evaporated 😮
I went through a horrific dark night of the soul and I found St. John of the Cross' Dark Night of the Soul was truly helpful. It is his commentary on his poem about the process of spiritual awakening and he details how we go through the process in our spiritual journey more than once. Each time we descend into the pit of despair and think we'll never recover and then we do to our great joy. However, then we go down again and forget our joy. Through repeating this process we are purified in time. St. John gives a very nuanced and beautiful account of how God appears to us and helps us through it. If you are in despair, I would recommend this very detailed and helpful spiritual aid. Strange that Tolle makes the comment at the beginning that he isn't sure if "dark night of the soul" is from St. John. He wrote the book on it. Highly, highly recommend it to all sincere spiritual seekers.
I read The dark night of the soul and The Ascent of Mount carmel, both are absolute must reads for anyone who wants to ascend to the union with God. I'd also add to those two books, "The confessions" by Augustine, which in its own way describes the dark night of the soul
@@bakhop I don't get what you mean by that. Who does augustine hold in low esteem? I've read the confessions and in reading city of God and he never denigrate anyone
I’m 26 and going through this right now. It feels overwhelming, but also necessary. I trust in the universe to guide me. I hope that I can surrender myself fully.
Spot on. The shattering of the former meaning I had created for my life. The love I'd had which now appeared not to be reciprocated. The grief of letting go my former meaningful life, now dead. Seeing dead trees, bursting into tears and knowing that this was indeed about grief, endings. Slowly finding new life, having to wear green, slowly slowly emerging. I will never forget this dark time, the beginning of my spiritual awakening. Thank you Eckhardt for feeling into it so well. What saved me was walking through the bush to the beach every day, and finding symbolic messages from nature. This was all I could do, no energy for anything else. But it was enough. 2 years, without medication.
This happened to me, my ego death, after repeatedly practicing the mental exorcises outlined in his book the Power Of Now. I called family thinking something terrible happened, but I realized it was the death of my ego. After this happened I never got depressed anymore.
8:10 the Liberation masters of nath tradition create dark night of soul to shake you to awakening. Read Mast, by Mohanji. These are powerful Liberation masters who are not interested in our terrestrial needs. It's a powerful path. Mohanji says it's path of total dissolution. Not just self realization. When you on this path it's not experiences & sensations anymore, it's hard-core dissolution. 🙏🏽
It’s so hard to keep on going when the reality that you’ve known for a while and felt safe in suddenly changes and you awaken but in a way where you feel so lost and it feels so lonely
I think any suffering has one purpose and that is to endure it. Shows tremendous strength of character and resolve. Poverty and depression are a heady mix but alcohol and drugs cannot help. Having a cause to die for is the solution. May God bless the afflicted and you find a way to the light.😢
My dark night of the soul has lasted for many years and if it wasn't for Eckhart Tolle I would probably be lost forever. Eternal gratitude for guiding myself and many others through this.
I hear ya. I feel like I've been in it my whole life. Trying to do what I can to get into the frequency of love now instead of fear. I have better & worse days with this. Sending love to you both on your journeys...♥️
I had a conversation with my family last night about finding my purpose in life and I asked many existential questions about our lives. They just want me to follow the typical norm of getting a degree, find a job, make a living for life. Recently, I had a spiritual awakening and everything I believed is crumbling down. I just feel like nothing even matters to me anymore. I just want to disassociate from the society to live in peace and be aligned with my true authentic self. Everybody calls me crazy. Eventually, the conversation turned into a heated argument, It was literally so depressing that I ended up leaving the room in tears. Later, I ended up spending the rest of the night alone in my room and spent a long time doing meditation to release the negativity. Deep down, I do trust the process. It is all a part of the transformation for the greater good, if somebody can relate to this, I just want to say keep moving forward, the universe will reward those that dares to follow their hearts! Peace! 🙏
Thank you for your comment, I went through this 4 years ago and struggle to explain to my husband what it was like and the chain of events, reading stories like yours help me to remember. What a rollercoaster! But the final goal is trust in God
As soon as I fully accepted that going through this dark night of the soul was part of my life, and the universe wanted me to experience this, it was over. It's been almost 3 years from my dark knight of the soul that lasted a little over a year, where nothing made sense anymore, I felt a void I couldn't fill with anything, didn't enjoy things I used to, and felt very misunderstood. Basically the worst time of my life. Where I'm going with all this is, if you are going through this, have faith and know that this is serving your higher self in ways you will later know. This will not last forever. My dark night of the soul redirected me to my REAL path in life, my real purpose to be alive and now I'm very thankful. The strugle isn't over yet but, now I feel that I'm fulfilling my personal legend, and you'll get to that place too just hang in there.
I experienced that a few Times ...A painful and exhausting process which was actually a cleansing process. I got rid of energies within me that poisened me. I came closer to myself and God. I am grateful for that karmic clearance...😇💫
thank you both of you, i really appreciate it, if you have any free time, please try to reach out to me at my e-mail, it's in my description, thanks again.
One thing I’ve realised in this life is that in a universe of infinite possibilities, I exist as me, there is only one me. In an infinite universe that would make each an every individual a miracle. Our chance of individual existence is 1 in infinity. That is a miracle. Truly understanding and believing that is the obstacle. I love you all so much you bunch of miracles ❤
I went through it 6 years ago after ending a toxic marriage. I’m lucky I didn’t end my life. I emerged from it a brand new person. I had to let go of everything I wanted my life to look like after years of social conditioning. I had to stop using the word “hate” and stop judging the world around me.
I have been going through the dark night of the soul for about 3 years now. I didnt know who I was anymore. I felt broken after a complete mental break down. I could not work and school was a struggle. I became depressed and suicidal, I also blamed people and would not let anyone close to me anymore. I have slowly started to come out of it now. I kept seeing signs that kept telling me that this cycle in my life was about to end. It is ending now and Im feeling a lot better. I am learning to forgive and let go and enjoy the fact that Im alive. The universe saw me through it! :)
@@MJ-qb5phI went thru it during 15 days & nights starting at winter Solstice in 1978. Had no idea at that time that the process had a name. I was clueless and oh boy! the society was so dense then... didn't share it with anyone keeping it all to myself. I and the world were completely new and there was this deep feeling of compassion for the whole of society immersed in its dreaming state. Nature brings you out of it however at the price you must consent - alchemical, painful auto- cleansing process. Don't fear. Have trust and go through it not meekly but valiantly. You will come out of it completely renewed for a continuation of a new life. With love to you all.
Gratitude is a big component of life. Tolle says live in the presence! This is powerful, we never did this before. I lost my entire family; mom dad 2 brothers, a sister, 2 sons, 3 daughters, wow! I still have my right mind, wow. It's because of Jesus and angels like Tolle. Learn how to live in the presence with Gratitude, it's the only way you'll survive in peace
I went through my first dark night of the soul several months after I met my twin flame. I went through a couple over the course of a couple years. I had no idea at the time what was happening but it's so clear now.
I went through this after my mum died and a number of other losses occurred. Totally withdrew and isolated from everyone and allowed myself to be with all the madness of grief and a myriad of other crazy emotions. I remember thinking at the time: how do I carry on living now? I don't know how to be in the world without these people! Looking back I realise a big part of me was dying... old me. I feel like a different person now. As if I've been reborn. It's a very odd experience.
At this stage of the dark night of the soul, I did not know what happened to me, but when I learned about my condition and that I was not the only one who felt this thing, I relaxed a little.. I wish our souls peace and that they rise to a better level than they were at.
Everyone I loved or cared about left me deserted me broke my heart. And I nearly died in the desert but I'm still alive still going on until I'm done with my tour of duty
For me, there would never have been spiritual growth or awakening without the dark night of the soul. I have had several. The first was my sophomore year in college. My second was when two of my children became addicted to opiates. The third was during the COVID experience. For me the dark night of the soul allows for my growth. It’s not depression, it’s a depth of the soul where you have to figure out what your life is about.
Not sure why, but I'm the same way... Each experience has incepted a "new self" out of the old. Thank you for just saying it! But I am the same way, no growth without directly applied pain.
I appreciate the serious tone of Eckhart's talk herein. He understands how difficult the dark night of the soul is. His comments are helpful. Thank you.
I have been through this for the last 2 years. It's really rough to see that there's a light of the end of the tunnel when I'm in this state. However, I choose to believe that I will pass through this soon. Thank you for sharing this video Eckhart. It's such a comforting words of you to keep me going.
The pace he talks at.. its like he's re-experiencing it again... Or.. like he's really looking at you waiting for you consciousness to focus again... I know im reading to deep into it but that pacing works super well for me
It was about 15 years ago when just 2 pages from one of his books changed my life for the better. I will never forget it. His wisdom and teachings gave me peace.....in my head.
The book was likely “The Power of Now”- Eckhart Tolles first landmark book. That book is the foundation for everything that has come since 1999 when it hit the market. I imagine it hits people in different ways. He brings you through the description on the sickness of the “unobserved mind” that causes us to live in either the past, future, or both. It’s not so much a book but a manual in becoming conscious and shedding the “conceptual mind-made self” that causes we humans so much suffering. It wasn’t an easy read foe me as he puts the unvarnished truth in your face. But he also gives you the KEY to exit the mental prison. It’s a golden spiritual key.
As I have always felt misfit and alienated as long as I remember, I have clung to a passion for personal projects. When this passion has gone, too, boy do you feel lost and empty. Everyone who has ever been really depressed, deprived of any meaning, knows what a blessing simple projects, dreams and desires mean - a difference of night and day. In my favourite book, the Mahabharata, among the many beautiful descriptions of inner conditions is one, where Drona in the midst of the battle is told that his son, Aswatama, is dead: 'And Drona sat down in car, and immediately all desire left him - as if it has never existed.' I fully understand that state.
Also when I went through mine, I lost my previous relationship but regained a friendship from her. Then, I questioned everything and lost my way. Finally, I found myself and then found my twin flame. Now life is sooo much shiner and new. I look at life how I used to look at it- with the eyes of a child.
Love ❤ you Eckhart. The dark night of the soul I experienced was as bad as it gets, as unfortunately, once breaking away from fundamental Baptist teachings, I felt there was nothing but materialism, and was complete identified with ego. I am thankful for the pain, and the breakdown that forced me to stay present, where I found relief, and like researched what had happened to ne( why I had a feeling of awakening after a long sleep) Your way of teaching was perfect for reaching me. The moment in the Power of Now audiobook when you said, " You are listening to yourself right now" was the moment something fully clicked and has never fully left me. Forever grateful 🙏💞💨
So, yesterday someone shared to me the course in miracle. Decided to give it a try and started lesson one today. Today I stumble across this video and decided to watch it. Literally mind blown.
When you have a great insight and see the enormous impact of our actions on all life….. a sudden cessation of all desire happens. It is at once great peace and a great disconnect from everything that was learned until then.
I have been a musician all my life and have had a dedicated passion for the guitar. I've played in bands since my late teens and also love fingerstyle guitar too. That all came to a screeching holt a few years back when I developed severe osteoarthritis in my left thumb. Since then it has spread to much of both hands including the right thumb and I have neuropathic pain in my right forearm, a tendon injury in my right ring finger and weakness in my left forarm due to a demyelination plaque in my spine. I find it nearly impossible to play guitar now so my main passion in life has now been taken from me. Which is why this talk by E. T. is so important... thanks you Eckhart for giving me a deeper understanding of how to deal with the difficult times in our lives.
I’m so glad you had that experience-I dream about it ! It’s awesome . I get it-Ibwas so strong and good at my job helping others in physical pain. I am just drained from the “hustle “ of trying to get folks to understand how amazing the body is at self healing
I am very very grateful for this video and these comments. It makes what I’m feeling real. Like I’m not making things up, other people feel/have felt what I’m going through and this is all for a purpose. It sucks right now, but there’s more to look forward to❤️
I just started to cry reading all the beautiful comments. Going through a really tough time with a deep feeling of meaningless and emptniess right now. Just to see that you are not alone and that there are so many people sending you love and wishing you the best made me so happy. Feeling much stronger right now. So thank you guys for that. Thank you so much. Sending all my love and power to everyone reading this. We are in this together and we will make it through.
I found this speech like a conversation with me personally. And every sentence he spoke was a positive affirmation for myself and my path right after I was thinking doubts
I have felt for many years now that I seem to be going through the dark night of the soul. Many cycles of my life I have felt to be in the belly of the whale. Then at times, I feel as though I have been " lost in the forest". Then it feels as though I wake up and begin to " recognize myself" again. These cycles of light and dark have been my life experience for over 60 years. I never feel totally at peace.
This can happen to those also suffering personality disorders. If you haven't been tested or made aware, it may shed some light on how it can be managed.
Thank you, Heer Tolle ♥️ seems like I am right in it since I freed myself from addictions and dropped into silence. This complete emptiness and lack of meaning and love is painful and scary. Cause it’s first time in my life i feel like i am depressed. The hope you speak about warms my heart and I am here to surrender to the experience
This life has been so difficult. I yearn for an awakening in my soul. I just feel lost and alone. But I am trying. Through it all, I try. And I search for meaning. I hope, in time, I find what my soul searches for. Thank you, Dr. Tolle
with sadness comes a day of happiness we could never imagine. with tears comes a day of ever lasting laughter. whoever is feeling pain, feeling like they are in a place they could never recover from feel free to reach out and we can talk and learn from one another. remember to put your mind into things only you can control and if it's not in your control let it soak outside your mind. you're never alone. I am here free of charge❤️ may you one day feel the sun as if you are the closest thing to it, and have a smile as if you've never heard something so funny. love you.
I have been experiencing this on and off for almost 17 yrs since my mother passed away at the age of 68. She basically dropped dead. I have been trying now for so long to understand why GOD, whom my mother loved and praised, would allow to her to experience the kind of death she had. From what my sister told me me it was traumatic for my mother and for all involved. I watched another video from Mr. Tolle the other day about what happens after death and was comforted and was able to realize that when my mother died she left her body and what was left was a shell/husk that had sustained her spirt or essence. She had gone to the place where we all will go when we die . Heaven she called it but I call it the great beyond. I hope get to see her and my father and all my long gone friends when I die. I feel a bit better then days and hope to one day heal.
The Dark Night of the Soul is profound and highly transformative, bringing us to a more authentic way of living and relating to ourselves and the world around us. The Ego death is so painful at first, yet glorious when it's complete. Thank you for your light and wisdom!! 🕯️✨💥
I have been experiencing this very thing. Thought my body could not possibly survive the trauma of it all ... and yet here I am ... listening, shifting ... and growing ... in His grace. Had a gun in my mouth last week. Gladly, I remembered a saying, "Don't give a permanent solution to a temporary problem." My life partner, soulmate, husband ... transitioned 13 months ago and has not reached back in any way my senses can confirm since then. We had an agreement. Thank you for sharing insight, hope, and compassion in such a clear and concise manner. This video is helping me lossen my death grip and walk out of the darkness ... and hopefully, shift my perspective upwards. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I have lived (through this) experience. And am still. That could be taken both ways. I think Eckhardt has a point w be with it AND go and be with some kind experienced people. I send you Love, comfort, hugs, a cup of tea, listening ear, shated tears, a walk, breatjing n meditation.n
Be the love you seek for the people still with you. You have much love to give and purpose. Let the sunlight through your window send you healing love as it touches your back. Let the wind wrap you with it’s loving embrace. Keep looking at the stars. If any of this send you comfort I hope❤ There will be days when nature does bring healing. Until then receive any hugs from even the littlest souls as love sent from God.
I found your book in the streets of new york, I pulled over and I had no idea what I was about to read, but your name rang a bell so I picked your book from the three books on the ground, I am so grateful I picked your book, its beginning to make sense all of it.
I went through this dark night of the soul in 2006, when I completely lost my faith in God. It was terrible and lasted almost 10 years. In this dark forest I became a convinced atheist and a radical materialist. Finally I had a transcendent Experience where I was pure love for everything and everyone, supreme happiness, indescribable peace, peaceful light, unlimited harmony... It lasted a few seconds and changed my life deeply and completely: I was light floating in an ocean of absolute love, happiness, peace, harmony and completeness. Indescribable, actually. It was as if a love bomb exploded inside me, inside my heart. Everything was Love, a living, vibrant, explosive, devouring, powerful love...
I've been suffering from Long Covid for over two years now. It had stripped away all that I thought I was. I can not exist how I used to and my ego is definitely dying. I lost my job, wife, house, ability to exercise, mental sharpness and balance. Months ago I was tetering on existence. I am still in the grips of the Dark Night of the Soul but somehow everyday, I manage to put one foot in front of the other. This must be my true self carrying forward. I try and remain hopeful that better days are to come but sometimes, it really is lot to handle. I have deepened my empathy to a level I never knew existed so I guess that's as good a place as any to start from. I truly wish everyone reading this a good life and a positive outcome from our current state of the world. Thank you.
We are all in this together. Let's live one day at a time, and remember to be kind to yourself.
stem cell therapy may fix all the damage done. costs about 5 -12 k. transfused into your blood and fixes the damage in the system
❤ Sending love to you too ❤
Want to show you support. Going through the same thing right now. ❤
All the best to you, don’t loose hope. ❤
Sending hugs to anyone healing emotionally right now. You are not alone. You are loved. 💙
Bullshite
Thank you. I miss her so much
No one loves me..i live alone and i will die alone!
@@MrEmotional33 Yikes, man. I am sorry you feel this way. It must be hard being so isolated.
Can you get out of the house and volunteer or interact? How is your health? I hope you can find a way to change your situation. Sometimes loneliness and isolation move us toward change. Also, if depression is a factor, a counselor, physician, or chaplain may help. Wishing you better times.
Thank you
I'm in a dark night of the soul right now. I've completely lost my identity and my old life has collapsed beneath me. Terrifying, but I'm trying to find my way. Nothing seems to matter anymore. I am so grateful for this message by Eckhart Tolle. It has been like a breadcrumb on the path and has helped to explain the predicament I find myself in at this point on my journey. To anyone else out there going through this, Hang in there and know you are not alone.
How are you now??
I know, what you mean. I have been through it. And what comes afterwards is the most beautiful thing you now cannot imagine!!
Just keep looking for the one who is aware of all that
Much love ❤❤❤
Hang in there and know u r not alone❤.
It does get better. Know that, believe that.
@@misscritique8863 Thank you. 🙏🤞
" Their Is no coming to consciousness without pain" Carl Jung
❤❤❤ thus we escape PAIN..there is no escaping pain!! Right ON!!😊😊😊
The separation of body and soul at death is the most spiritually painful thing we can experience. We must all experience it.
Amen!
@@CannabrannaLammer
Not once we're in 4D or higher
You have to be chosen to be awakened by your ancestors and it has to be earned you can't just simply wish for it.
I lost my mind, not in an delusional way-in a purposeful way. I lost my persona. I was always a goal oriented person with courage. I suddenly couldn’t even choose items at the store. My hands started to shake, I became homeless. I could only sit at the coffee shop and stare out the window. I just kept going without a purpose. It was the change of life circumstances that slowly but gradually started to show me that I was to believe in the universe over myself because I was no longer in control. I realize now how blessed I was and how I am GRATEFUL to have made it through!
How you came out of situation
I'm coming to that same situation now, it's amazing how life just organises itself when you're not thinking or planning it, almost like everything is scripted
Thank you. Very inspiring!
@@naurinsaba979 I let the universe take over. It was a test and I had no control, so I just had to let go and I finally ended up in a peaceful and prosperous living situation.
@@Irongaint it's so true, isn't it?
When they said she was going crazy, she was awakening.
When they said that she was isolating, she was healing.
When they said she was acting funny, she was growing.
When they said that she had changed, she was evolving.
When they said she did not care anymore, she finally realized that her peace lives within.
Exactly ♥️
Well said. I’m going to send your quote to a friend this am, just lost her mom. Thanks
Beautiful!
Thats pretty powerful. Often times those around us judge our behavior when it is something else entirely happening.
@@BraveCat9927 facts
The profound emptiness will become filled with light and joy after. Best of wishes for anyone going through the dark night period
Is it so? Have you experienced that? I am going through that in this moment. I have nothing to hold on. Just a thread of hope on almighty.
@@manjunatha9707 wow,, go go go.. u get enlightened afterwards.. good luck
@@manjunatha9707 yes absolutely, it's a "phase" if you will. you're not alone in experiencing it
dont conclude things in that way..you are stopping the possibilities ahead..too lazy to deal with fact..and then fantasizing things...one must always be ready for anything..the flexibity is emptiness..not something like you mention..the happy mode..grow up brother
@@nyimagyaltsen7715 oh come on ...wish him good luck! if not enlightenment then better luck next time! hooray!
"The more you surrender, the more quickly you go through it. Surrender means don't judge it anymore. You accept whatever it is that you experience at this moment."
"Not everybody has to go through that. For many people, the awakening process starts and begins without that."
"Allow life to do what it does."
Thank you Eckhart.
How to do that???
@@lindakoch9524 I use the words "everything is here to help me" - Matt Khan. Be patient because you need to use to your new paradigm-change your subconscious mind.
@@lindakoch9524 surrender means that you stop resisting the negative emotions that you are feeling, allow yourself to feel those emotions, eventually they will disappear, I'm doing it right now it works
@@thebutterflymetamorphosis I really appreciate that
@@Stellagalloway444 I've been going through it for a year and a half, I highly recommend the book "Letting go" by David Hawkins, it teaches you how to surrender negative emotions and find inner happiness, it takes time but it really works
It went through when I lost everything including my home, money, everything and was homeless and impacted by Covid twice. My only son died from a drug overdose and his life ended tragically. It started in 2021 and two years later I’m starting to see the light. It was a spiritual crisis and I questioned if God was real. I questioned my faith and was disillusioned about everything and I thought everything was fake and no point. I was stripped of everything that I thought was my identity. It was and is the hardest season of my life and I thought I would die and was even suicidal and depressed and the light of my indigenous, ancestral medicine carried me through.
The ego dies. The soul awakes.
- I just want to let anyone who’s reading this, and going through a tough time know that it’s going to be okay. You’ll get through it! ✨
Like there's any choice in it 😂
Ummm that's not true at all, my wife has stage 4 cancer and is NOT going to be okay... she will die from the cancer and there's no "getting through it" no matter how much positive thinking or new age BS you want to believe in 🙄
@@paulking9479 exactly
Same message under every video .. loosing it's meaning
@@paulking9479 there are choices and thats what makes it so hard. if was no choice- no problem. but when you need to do certain things, that are extremely difficult or involve serious suffering... its really tough.
It happened to me when I FINALLY retired and bought a house in the country. Something I thought for so long would give me true peace and happiness. It didn't at all. It felt so empty. I went into a deep depression. I've slowly been peeling away layers of my ego since then. Thank you Ekhart for helping me on this "journey "
do you eat apples?
You thought you could buy your way to peace and happiness, sure your not a teenager 😜?
We all need a purpose and goals and you felt like you lost yours, because you did. You need something new to work towards
@@KarteHainKucch thanks for your kindness?
We have to place our perceived fear and anxiety into God’s hands, then let all questioning go. In fact, every moment lived in his presence and guidance will give you daily peace and joy. Surrender to God’s love.. And question nothing, just accept, then everything changes, it does not stay in one way. Then, your life magically takes on a different form. It could look completely opposite. That what you thought was futile, by the Holy Spirit is changed.
Often have dark nights of the soul as a mother who lost two sons recently
One to suicide , my son was intelligent and a father to my only grandchild 😢
The other son had been extremely successful in business , he didn’t lack anything
However , his life to a turn for the worst , he became homeless , a drug addict
And eventually on life support in hospital , a decision was made to release him
From Life support , he died 20mins later , and before he died he was able to expel
A teardrop from his left eye , letting me know he was so sorry to be leaving us .
Heartbreaking 💔 leading to my own Dark Night of the Soul
Yet have survived due to greater happiness in the knowledge
his was not the reality of all of our lives , my sons had also lived very positive lives amen 🙏
Mary Canada 🇨🇦
Thank you for sharing your stories and perspectives x I appreciate them today x
God and Goddess Bless you! I recently went through a very trauma filled time and lost a family member while dealing with severe pain. Nothing made sense but now my well of empathy is deeper....I'm sending you love and hugs.
my deepest condolences to you
My deepest condolences 😢
Your journey is inspirational. Much love to you Mary 💛
I recently lost my 3 brothers - there were 4 of us. I had no other siblings. I am the only one left. My divorced parents are estranged and abusive; so I steer clear as much as possible. My adult son lost his mind when his uncles died and now I have seemingly lost him to dozens of hospitalizations in the last couple of years since my brothers died to substance abuse and suicide. I will continue to pray for my son. It seems hopeless on the outside but I won’t give up hope!
💗💗💗
Wow, this is intense. My heart melts. These are extreme circumstances to go through for both you and your son. My prayers are with you now. I know this was one year ago approx and wonder how you and your son are doing. Almighty God be with you.
Omg I will pray for you. How are you doing now? How are your son? I have family members who tries to destroy my daughter and me. They think Im crazy but Im awakening and it has been an intense yourney cause Ive gotten fooled so much by people around me. I trust to easily and people are narcs. I had to block my mom too, she is a narsisist.
I’ve had a few dark nights of the soul, firstly after narcissistic abuse and then again when repressed childhood trauma surfaced. It came in stages and I experienced a lot of pain, but when i I faced it, it dissolved and transmuted into deep bliss and love ❤❤❤
This is exactly what is happening to me …🤔
@@crystalH30 amazing!! It’s horrendously painful but so worth it 🥰
This is exactly what's happening to me too!
@@te-aramcinman8851 haha 😂 yes not a fan either but always well worth it out the other side 😅 the alchemy part can be sooo painful but remembering it’s just a process to be observed and moved through helps, as well as connecting with other people who are going through this so I don’t feel so alone 🤗💝
@@crystalH30 I’m going through another mini one atm 😅 🤗💝 we got this!
i recently went through this myself, Eckhart explained it perfectly. Nothing made me happy anymore, nothing made me feel better anymore, i had lost complete touch with reality, as soon as i woke up i just couldn't wait until i could go to sleep again.., it's painful. But whoever is going through it rn, reality wants you to become the person you were meant to be, but to do that you're old self must be destroyed. It might seem scary, but it wouldn't happen to you if you wouldn't be able to handle it. We are never in control anyways, that's just what the ego believes, we can't change what happens only how we react to it. Surrender to the experience and just accept whatever you're dealing with. This too shall pass
Very well put 👏
I joke that sleeping is my hobby. It was the only rest I got from a violent home as a child. It’s nice to find others to hold hands with a little bit in this storm
@@evangelesong6319Be quiet and stop lecturing people about something you have no experience about.
waking up in the morning is depressing for me most days, so I totally understand what you say here. Thank you.
I am in perfect health
I am strong and polite
I have a healthy mind body and soul
I love myself
I accept everyone
My dark night of the soul was my sons suicide. I have realised since that he left this earthly realm because his body was not working for him anymore. He was the brightest light that now shines in the universe… I can’t wait until we meet again 🙏❤️
So very sorry for your loss. Sending you lots of love and prayers. ♥️
I’m sorry 🌹
sorry to hear that :(
❤️🙏🥰
🙏🏻❤️
My wife of 41 years merges back to the universe 9/1/21. 18 months of meaninglessness, wrongness, pointlessness... all of me. Consumed. Suicide was close many times in despair. Nothing looks right. No faith remains. EVERYTHING you say Eckhart. 27 months now. My precious daughter handed me the Power Of Now. Your book and my work in it has saved my life, not metaphorically sir, not metaphorically at all. In real, grounded sense I want to live. I want to love, and I will again - with my memories and experience as I continue to "awaken". Thank you. It is happening. Palms together, I hear. One thought - nothing real is threatened, nothing unreal exists. Life changing.
I have been feeling this for months now and its a very, strange place to be, it's like being completely lost and looking for straws to grab hold of, which disintegrate when you reach out for them. It's like being on an inescapable island , it's just very scary, very lonely and a neverending feeling of dread and discomfort. It just feels bad to be in your skin and experience the thoughts constantly running through your mind.
I don't know what triggered it, but it's not a good place to be. I will watch this video several times as it may help the fear and depths of despair I'm in. Thank you for making this.
I understand. It started for me about 8 months ago now. My whole sense of self slowly being broken down. It's quite scary.
Wow, I am 65 an experience the same thing. I am not alone. It affects me more to realize I am mortal after surviving a heart attack and my wife surviving cancer patient. My brother is in another country and we doesn't want to have any relationship after passing of our parents. It feels I lost him and the grief is hitting me. I can swim with the life current. It is hard and lonely and scary. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Wendy, it’s a year later- how are you? I pray you’ve not only weathered it but have experiences some level of transformation.
Life can sit on us like a million tons of rock, pressing down and squeezing until it feels as though there is not even one drop left. Spiritual growth is no walk in the park.
Hang in there, pray it gets easier for u
I'm also in it. I swim, i do active meditation, friends.. let's keep in touch in this group. It helps me to find trust❤
I picked up my 4yr old from school and was watching a video of yours. She asked, "Mommy, what are you doing?" I said, watching my favorite spiritual mentor speak, his name is Eckhart Tolle. She repeated your name in question form, w/her lil child like voice. I said Yes... Eckhart, the one who wrote a book that changed my life forever! She seemed very curious so I paused the video and showed her your picture. She looked at you w/this surprised face, like she knew you, then pointed at you, and said OOOOHHH Yeah!! I LIKE HIM MOMMY! I replied, I like him too honey... mommy loves him! Thank You for ALL YOU ARE Eckhart! 🙏❤️🙏🙇♀️
Lovely 💙 your daughter is lucky to have a parent that is receiving guidance from this great mind.
Don't know why this touched me.....
That's cool
That's a sweet story.
Where does 4 year olds go to school?
Sometimes it's hard to believe that this "dark night of the soul" is for a higher purpose; it seems like it's just pain, with no purpose, no meaning, that we are forgotten in this life. But it's comforting to think that there's a greater purpose to it.
Yes and it lasted more than one night for me and it's been many years of ups and downs more Downs for me
yes you right there, its for a greater reason, behind the scenes something big is about to emerge
It hardens the Philosopher's stone or sheds another layer of the onion.
All suffering has the same purpose
Još teže je poverovati da Kreator voli da nam pravi ovu zemaljsku igru sa ovoliko patnje...bez razloga🙏💥❤️
A collapse of a perceived meaning in life. That’s the best way to describe the dark night of the soul experience. It’s dreadful. But it will be beautiful in time. Thank you 🙏🏻 ✨
Absolutely agree 🌬🧘🏽♀️💚 going through it now.
Don't burst my bubble! 😫
@Rewired Jesus would say the same thing as Eckhart though in different choice of words.
@@nmendez14How are you now? Sending lots of love and light ❤️✨️
I have complex PTSD. I live in the dark night every day. Yet, I still have hope to heal. Listening to Eckart gives me a sense of peace.
@historywithbpsychology yes, I am. Thank you for taking the time to ask😀
Having a hope means that you don't believe, you just hope. Just believe and imagine yourself being healthy. Then you subconscious mind will reprogramm.
I'm on this stage and suffering.
I'm from Chiang Mai, Thailand.
My home was heavily flooded last month,I spent all my savings, I lost my job and broke up with the relationship.
I don't know what to do and feel hopeless about the future.
I have to stay home with nothing to do.
I talked to my friends and one of them told me that she thinks I'm in the dark night of the soul so I started to listen to the podcast and read about it. I let everything go as it be, SURRENDER.
I work with my egos and chakra.
I'm grounding, connect with nature and meditation.
Now I feel better.
My money situations are in critical stage but I feel more calm and trust the power inside me that I can handle with it soon.
Thanks for this valuable video. ❤
For the last 9 months I have been experiencing the dark night of the soul. through my son's unexpected departure. I found him on March 1st.2022. He was my only child. He is a beautiful, successful, funny, witty, handsome and 35 years old at the peak of his life. This feels like a heavy blanket of sadness that sometimes overtakes me. Thank you
My dear that's so sad 😔😪 I pray for the angels to comfort you 💦
I feel your pain having found my son hanging last year. It truly is the worst pain in human life but I know the universe is full of their beautiful souls it was just their bodies that let them down god bless you 🙏❤️
🙏💔 nemam Vaše iskustvo ali znam da je vaše dete na boljem "mestu" i da ćete opet komunicirati🙏❤️
Love you 🌹. I’m sorry ..
So sorry for your loss ✨💜
I had this in Oct. 2007. It was extreme and radical. I thought I was dying.
All I can say is if someone goes through something like that is just calm yourself and trust God. Ride it out.
True that! The resistance just binds. I leaned into a lot of pain today. It felt like it was a hatchet and I was already bleeding but that imagined hatchet just disappeared and I felt calm -for 5 while minutes
I lost my son in 2021. I went through the dark night of the soul, completely empty, I at some stage didn't know who I was anymore, life stopped. I realized one day that I had stopped thinking and the first reaction was, you can't live if you can't think, but I was breathing, I was very confused. My life as I knew and understood it, was gone, just gone. I eventually ask Google if it's possible to not think but still be and that's how I found Ekhart. The problem I find now, is I am still in the same environment, amongst the same people, I have changed but they haven't, they no longer understand me. Thank you.
I have a device that is able to stop thought
Are you content? Are you at peace?
@@johngarrity6687 I accept my son's passing am at peace with this, content, I am finding that difficult, nothing is what it was and my now just is, now, almost meaningless but not. Difficult to explain.
@@kaplyn6580 Thanks for replying.
I read that cultivating compassion and doing intentional good works for others (alleviating suffering) is v meaningful.
I do think it possible to find a supreme presence and to rest in that space. Is that too far out for you?
Best to you on your journey.
@@johngarrity6687 thanks, actually its not too far out.
Everything in our lives is temporary. We know that intellectually, but often act as if people & things are permanent. This a perfect recipe for further suffering! Everything has been stripped away from me, but I probably needed it to be so to truly find my Beloved - my God,
We lost our 22-year-old boy last year. He was the joy he was our star bright of our lives our only son. Everything apparent would want UCLA graduate surfer Marathon runner friends loved ones everybody loved our son. I'm just like that we got the phone call. Are so-called world was gone absolutely in abyss. Total loss total confusion. It's been a year but slowly surely that we are evolving. Thanks eckart for your shares. Piece everyone. Surrender. 🙏
Thank you universe for bringing Eckhart to this planet and giving us the pleasure to encounter his wisdom 🌟
Eckhart si ti🙏❤️
Amen
This is not his wisdom. Read Jung. And John the cross.
@@majbrittlunaleth3600this wisdom is universal. In that sense, you are right. It is not his wisdom. It is wisdom that is actually expressing to the world through him. I haven’t read the authors you are mentioning but I’m sure they are expressing the same
Wisdom. ❤
It’s thank you God and not thank you Universe.
It's been over a month for me now... I'm amazed this clip came in my thread.
I told my mum and my house mate I feel like I've lost my identity, the person I was last year in that amazing job. Not knowing what I'm good for now . I've put so much meaning to my old self... Tried desperately to get back into it and applied for jobs the past weeks because I wanted my old self / life back. 3 days ago I've dropped the thought and the 'want'. I have put my 'me' from last year ' finally to rest'. Including tears, anger, feeling of guilt and shame of all the mistakes I made... I stayed in my room a lot, didn't want to go outside at all and turned into a hermit.
Today was the first day in a total of 6 weeks where I felt content and at peace and I actually smiled.
So whoever is going through it I send you the strength not to go stubbornly against the death of ego and made up ideals, like I have. 🙏🌻🙏
That was beautiful because of the last few sentences... Hopefully others who reads your comment also experiences this
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@@vigneshkg5370 ❤️🌻
I'm on year 4. Second year was so intense I barely made it out.
@@olinafan4459 if you are ok to try a few things there is free Isha kriya meditation in TH-cam or Sadhguru app millions of people do it maybe give it a go(try to complete mandala) it will definitely help in the healing process something is better than nothing
And also as someone who was depressed for few years physical exercise and getting in touch with nature fresh air made huge difference it's your decision I know you can decide what's best for you ❤️❤️❤️
You got this
@@vigneshkg5370 no one has ever meditated
I went through this too, about 8 years after losing my daughter. I can describe it as being completely gutted ( not grief) and devoid of any sense of ambition, drive or purpose. There is nothing that can be done to alleviate it apart from sleep. You feel completely abandoned but i instinctively knew that i just had to wait it out.
As I am making my journey for the upteenth time Spirit said to me “nothing to live for, nothing to die for”. That is exactly what it feels like.
May God rest her soul in peace!🙏💐🙏 Amin!🙋♀️😇🙏
@@xxgamerxxilean8738 Thank you. I'm sure of that.
@@OLLYCHAUCER I am sure that your daughter is in total bliss, and happiness. We--the ones left behind---are the ones suffering. BUT...the DAY is coming ♥
@@dragonfly9209 Thank you
To all the people who are passing through this phase of self growth, I want to assure that it will soon be over and on the other side you would find yourself much more peaceful, more in control of your life, more loving and devoted towards the God. I also went through such phases where everything seemed negative and hurtful. I used to be anxious and lived every moment in anxiety and fear. Couldn't even sleep. But it passed away and now I feel much more stronger and powerful than I was back then. You will come out of it stronger and better. Your fears will go away gradually. It is period of special growth and it is a gift of Grace from the Lord because he loves you.
I have suffered dark night of the soul 5 years back and overcame through complete surrender.. The journey is amazing, the path to be my best version❤
Care to explain?
I went through the darkest of times and almost lost my life due to alcoholism. I believe my case involved depression and witch-craft and it was destroying my life. But I have come out as a totally new man with a real purpose. Fasting and meditation accelerated my growth, as I started asking profound questions and looking for the truth in everything. I have made several realizations on my own while meditating that I now hear experts say/confirm. It's like I have tuned into the frequency of the universe where things beyond the world we see start to made sense. It's beautiful and I'm glad I went through all of that pain and suffering, because although it caused me to hit rock bottom and break into a million pieces, it's given me the opportunity to rebuild myself into the man I have always wanted to be... Trust me, when you come out of it, you will begin to see the beauty in small things that almost everyone takes for granted or ignores... Why? Because by the time you come out of the darkness, you will probably have lost almost everything you previously perceived as important.
Beautifully expressed....I FELT everything you said on a deep level. Thanks for sharing your profound experience.
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There are always dear Humans who need some caring and love. Move out of the Dark Night into a morning of service to others - old people placed in retirement centers and forgotten, young children who spend days in uncaring Day Care while parents must work. Volunteer ! The joy and meaning you share is transforming for you and others.
I went through a dark night of the soul since 2001 when i received Jesus,it was as if the lights went out inside me. I was just existing but no longer thriving. Through the process i learned that i was being stripped of everything and anything that can keep me away from God. In a sense i was being broken down inside before i got rebuilt. My only solace of peace over the years was staying close to god by prayer, reading His Word, and worship and last was stillness by just submitting or surrendering to God's Hand. It made the process more bearable but i was detached from self and the world. A lot of dark things hidden in me were being brought to the surface to deal with. Today i have since experienced His presence in my life again and can tell you today it was worth the wait and toil. I hope this testimony may help someone going through something similar, shalom!
Any tips on how to stay centered and calm when going through it? Much love! ❤❤❤
thank you
@@gloriouslyaesthetic sorry for the late reply, its crucial to get in God's Presense daily by just being still and focusing on just Him, a quiet and imperceptible exchange happens, then after you feel ready you can worship or pray, but its all Him that does the changing, the filling up of His love in your heart to be able to love others, to finally feel complete and satisfied. He is the source of everything good. BUT we as humans, we leak. That is why i say to get in God's presence daily, this is how you grow and walk in the Spirit, He does all the work, you simply be still, shalom.
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I know- 8 months ago you wrote. The deal is SURRENDER & STAYING PRESENT. Life does the rest.
I started my spiritual journey a year ago and literally had lots of healing. It really showed me that I can handle anything. If I can do so can anyone! It takes time and it’s worth it. Trust God he will guide you. I promise you it’s very worth it.
Wishing you luck and love ❤
The amount of times he blinks here tells me he is recalling his dark night and staying grounded to reduce his flashbacks.
or maybe the heater is on and the air is dry.
At 77 every night is dark with only my soul, feeling the withering, the dark is settling in. In a life so remembered, so vivid, now so slowed, cautious, tentative, when I was once all energy, all doing ..of course the empty comes in. Never thought there was, HAD TO BE, purpose, meaning...but it didn't matter, now it seems like... It should have. No trauma, no event, just the slow unravelling to ...nothingness. my mind had given a meaning it seemed, but when it slowly evaporates...evaporated 😮
Well that sure made an impression on me. 😮 I’m not sure how I feel about it, but it made me think 😢
I went through a horrific dark night of the soul and I found St. John of the Cross' Dark Night of the Soul was truly helpful. It is his commentary on his poem about the process of spiritual awakening and he details how we go through the process in our spiritual journey more than once. Each time we descend into the pit of despair and think we'll never recover and then we do to our great joy. However, then we go down again and forget our joy. Through repeating this process we are purified in time. St. John gives a very nuanced and beautiful account of how God appears to us and helps us through it. If you are in despair, I would recommend this very detailed and helpful spiritual aid. Strange that Tolle makes the comment at the beginning that he isn't sure if "dark night of the soul" is from St. John. He wrote the book on it. Highly, highly recommend it to all sincere spiritual seekers.
Totally agree, St. John of the Cross' book helped me so much when I was deep in my first dark night of the soul!
I read The dark night of the soul and The Ascent of Mount carmel, both are absolute must reads for anyone who wants to ascend to the union with God. I'd also add to those two books, "The confessions" by Augustine, which in its own way describes the dark night of the soul
@@eoinMB3949 I find st Augustine really misses the mark since he holds half the human race in such low esteem. None of that with st John of the cross.
@@bakhop I don't get what you mean by that. Who does augustine hold in low esteem? I've read the confessions and in reading city of God and he never denigrate anyone
@@eoinMB3949 Also...C.S. Lewis---"A Grief Observed"
I’m 26 and going through this right now. It feels overwhelming, but also necessary. I trust in the universe to guide me. I hope that I can surrender myself fully.
Hru now
Spot on. The shattering of the former meaning I had created for my life. The love I'd had which now appeared not to be reciprocated. The grief of letting go my former meaningful life, now dead. Seeing dead trees, bursting into tears and knowing that this was indeed about grief, endings. Slowly finding new life, having to wear green, slowly slowly emerging. I will never forget this dark time, the beginning of my spiritual awakening. Thank you Eckhardt for feeling into it so well. What saved me was walking through the bush to the beach every day, and finding symbolic messages from nature. This was all I could do, no energy for anything else. But it was enough. 2 years, without medication.
This happened to me, my ego death, after repeatedly practicing the mental exorcises outlined in his book the Power Of Now. I called family thinking something terrible happened, but I realized it was the death of my ego. After this happened I never got depressed anymore.
What a gift Eckhart is
I've had many dark nights of the soul. They've all made me a better person in the end.
you master your life
Become "no-person"
8:10 the Liberation masters of nath tradition create dark night of soul to shake you to awakening. Read Mast, by Mohanji. These are powerful Liberation masters who are not interested in our terrestrial needs. It's a powerful path. Mohanji says it's path of total dissolution. Not just self realization. When you on this path it's not experiences & sensations anymore, it's hard-core dissolution. 🙏🏽
Doesn't work for everyone sadly. Many get broken without repair.
It’s so hard to keep on going when the reality that you’ve known for a while and felt safe in suddenly changes and you awaken but in a way where you feel so lost and it feels so lonely
Same
I think any suffering has one purpose and that is to endure it. Shows tremendous strength of character and resolve. Poverty and depression are a heady mix but alcohol and drugs cannot help. Having a cause to die for is the solution. May God bless the afflicted and you find a way to the light.😢
My dark night of the soul has lasted for many years and if it wasn't for Eckhart Tolle I would probably be lost forever. Eternal gratitude for guiding myself and many others through this.
I'm on year 4.
I hear ya. I feel like I've been in it my whole life. Trying to do what I can to get into the frequency of love now instead of fear. I have better & worse days with this. Sending love to you both on your journeys...♥️
It's better than nothing. Sometimes 😆
Trevor ilesly (another youtuber) helped a lot more in my personal experience.
@@olinafan4459 Thanks for the recommendation. The more guidance the better..
i love how slow he talks and allows you to think about what hes saying along w him
I had a conversation with my family last night about finding my purpose in life and I asked many existential questions about our lives. They just want me to follow the typical norm of getting a degree, find a job, make a living for life.
Recently, I had a spiritual awakening and everything I believed is crumbling down. I just feel like nothing even matters to me anymore. I just want to disassociate from the society to live in peace and be aligned with my true authentic self. Everybody calls me crazy. Eventually, the conversation turned into a heated argument, It was literally so depressing that I ended up leaving the room in tears. Later, I ended up spending the rest of the night alone in my room and spent a long time doing meditation to release the negativity.
Deep down, I do trust the process. It is all a part of the transformation for the greater good, if somebody can relate to this, I just want to say keep moving forward, the universe will reward those that dares to follow their hearts! Peace! 🙏
Thank you for your comment, I went through this 4 years ago and struggle to explain to my husband what it was like and the chain of events, reading stories like yours help me to remember. What a rollercoaster! But the final goal is trust in God
As soon as I fully accepted that going through this dark night of the soul was part of my life, and the universe wanted me to experience this, it was over. It's been almost 3 years from my dark knight of the soul that lasted a little over a year, where nothing made sense anymore, I felt a void I couldn't fill with anything, didn't enjoy things I used to, and felt very misunderstood. Basically the worst time of my life. Where I'm going with all this is, if you are going through this, have faith and know that this is serving your higher self in ways you will later know. This will not last forever. My dark night of the soul redirected me to my REAL path in life, my real purpose to be alive and now I'm very thankful. The strugle isn't over yet but, now I feel that I'm fulfilling my personal legend, and you'll get to that place too just hang in there.
The next one will be much easier.
Thank you! 🙏🏽
@@olinafan4459 yes
Dam 3 yrs? I got bills to pay :(
@@NobleWolf33 lol yeah that's how people end up homeless. People who have it when they're younger are blessed
I experienced that a few Times
...A painful and exhausting process which was actually a cleansing process. I got rid of energies within me that poisened me. I came closer to myself and God. I am grateful for that karmic clearance...😇💫
Please explain how you come out of this what treatment you did its help many of us
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It was the most painful experience in my life. Now here I am. 🙏
You made it thus far, Learn, Ride on and Hard.
looking for someone to talk to about this who can share some insights, honestly just someone to talk to is more than good.
@@zd3101 I’m here if you need someone
thank you both of you, i really appreciate it, if you have any free time, please try to reach out to me at my e-mail, it's in my description, thanks again.
And what did you do? more than 20 years I am in this painful experience. tell me please if you want.
One thing I’ve realised in this life is that in a universe of infinite possibilities, I exist as me, there is only one me. In an infinite universe that would make each an every individual a miracle. Our chance of individual existence is 1 in infinity. That is a miracle. Truly understanding and believing that is the obstacle. I love you all so much you bunch of miracles ❤
I went through it 6 years ago after ending a toxic marriage. I’m lucky I didn’t end my life. I emerged from it a brand new person. I had to let go of everything I wanted my life to look like after years of social conditioning. I had to stop using the word “hate” and stop judging the world around me.
stop judging the world around me - interesting
First time I heard this man. I’m thanking the algorithm which brought me here, because I felt this message, deep in my heart. Thank you.
I have been going through the dark night of the soul for about 3 years now. I didnt know who I was anymore. I felt broken after a complete mental break down. I could not work and school was a struggle. I became depressed and suicidal, I also blamed people and would not let anyone close to me anymore. I have slowly started to come out of it now. I kept seeing signs that kept telling me that this cycle in my life was about to end. It is ending now and Im feeling a lot better. I am learning to forgive and let go and enjoy the fact that Im alive. The universe saw me through it! :)
How long did this process take?
@@MJ-qb5phI went thru it during 15 days & nights starting at winter Solstice in 1978.
Had no idea at that time that the process had a name. I was clueless and oh boy! the society was so dense then... didn't share it with anyone
keeping it all to myself. I and the world were completely new and there was this deep feeling of
compassion for the whole of society immersed in its dreaming state. Nature brings you out of it however at the price you must
consent - alchemical,
painful auto- cleansing process.
Don't fear.
Have trust and go through it not meekly but valiantly. You will come out of it completely renewed for a continuation of a new life.
With love to you all.
More power to you❤
Danke!
Thank you for your support.
I just came through it and its wonderful when you get out and see the beauty inside
Gratitude is a big component of life. Tolle says live in the presence! This is powerful, we never did this before. I lost my entire family; mom dad 2 brothers, a sister, 2 sons, 3 daughters, wow! I still have my right mind, wow. It's because of Jesus and angels like Tolle. Learn how to live in the presence with Gratitude, it's the only way you'll survive in peace
I went through my first dark night of the soul several months after I met my twin flame. I went through a couple over the course of a couple years. I had no idea at the time what was happening but it's so clear now.
I went through this after my mum died and a number of other losses occurred. Totally withdrew and isolated from everyone and allowed myself to be with all the madness of grief and a myriad of other crazy emotions. I remember thinking at the time: how do I carry on living now? I don't know how to be in the world without these people! Looking back I realise a big part of me was dying... old me. I feel like a different person now. As if I've been reborn. It's a very odd experience.
Me too. How long did it take?
Mind sharing your sister?
At this stage of the dark night of the soul, I did not know what happened to me, but when I learned about my condition and that I was not the only one who felt this thing, I relaxed a little.. I wish our souls peace and that they rise to a better level than they were at.
Everyone I loved or cared about left me deserted me broke my heart. And I nearly died in the desert but I'm still alive still going on until I'm done with my tour of duty
For me, there would never have been spiritual growth or awakening without the dark night of the soul. I have had several. The first was my sophomore year in college. My second was when two of my children became addicted to opiates. The third was during the COVID experience. For me the dark night of the soul allows for my growth. It’s not depression, it’s a depth of the soul where you have to figure out what your life is about.
Thank you.🙏🏻❤️
How do you define “growth”?
Not sure why, but I'm the same way... Each experience has incepted a "new self" out of the old. Thank you for just saying it! But I am the same way, no growth without directly applied pain.
I appreciate the serious tone of Eckhart's talk herein. He understands how difficult the dark night of the soul is. His comments are helpful. Thank you.
I have been through this for the last 2 years. It's really rough to see that there's a light of the end of the tunnel when I'm in this state. However, I choose to believe that I will pass through this soon. Thank you for sharing this video Eckhart. It's such a comforting words of you to keep me going.
Hru now
The pace he talks at.. its like he's re-experiencing it again...
Or.. like he's really looking at you waiting for you consciousness to focus again...
I know im reading to deep into it but that pacing works super well for me
Had this experience, Eckhart helped me a ton to get THROUGH it.
It was about 15 years ago when just 2 pages from one of his books changed my life for the better. I will never forget it. His wisdom and teachings gave me peace.....in my head.
Could you please mention the book?
The book was likely “The Power of Now”- Eckhart Tolles first landmark book.
That book is the foundation for everything that has come since 1999 when it hit the market.
I imagine it hits people in different ways. He brings you through the description on the sickness of the “unobserved mind” that causes us to live in either the past, future, or both.
It’s not so much a book but a manual in becoming conscious and shedding the “conceptual mind-made self” that causes we humans so much suffering.
It wasn’t an easy read foe me as he puts the unvarnished truth in your face. But he also gives you the KEY to exit the mental prison.
It’s a golden spiritual key.
As I have always felt misfit and alienated as long as I remember, I have clung to a passion for personal projects.
When this passion has gone, too, boy do you feel lost and empty.
Everyone who has ever been really depressed, deprived of any meaning, knows what a blessing simple projects, dreams and desires mean
- a difference of night and day.
In my favourite book, the Mahabharata, among the many beautiful descriptions of inner conditions is one, where Drona in the midst of the battle is told that his son, Aswatama, is dead:
'And Drona sat down in car, and immediately all desire left him - as if it has never existed.'
I fully understand that state.
Eckart ‘ for me is the best spiritual teacher out there .. thank you ❤🙏🏼
Also when I went through mine, I lost my previous relationship but regained a friendship from her. Then, I questioned everything and lost my way. Finally, I found myself and then found my twin flame. Now life is sooo much shiner and new. I look at life how I used to look at it- with the eyes of a child.
Thanks for your words. I have surrendered everything to God. Jesus , Mary and Joseph I give my body, soul and spirit to you. Stay blessed
Well Mary and Joseph are dead so they can’t hear you but spot on for everything else!
Love ❤ you Eckhart. The dark night of the soul I experienced was as bad as it gets, as unfortunately, once breaking away from fundamental Baptist teachings, I felt there was nothing but materialism, and was complete identified with ego. I am thankful for the pain, and the breakdown that forced me to stay present, where I found relief, and like researched what had happened to ne( why I had a feeling of awakening after a long sleep) Your way of teaching was perfect for reaching me. The moment in the Power of Now audiobook when you said, " You are listening to yourself right now" was the moment something fully clicked and has never fully left me. Forever grateful 🙏💞💨
So, yesterday someone shared to me the course in miracle. Decided to give it a try and started lesson one today.
Today I stumble across this video and decided to watch it.
Literally mind blown.
When you have a great insight and see the enormous impact of our actions on all life….. a sudden cessation of all desire happens. It is at once great peace and a great disconnect from everything that was learned until then.
Surrendering to pass through the dark night of the soul quickly. Thank you for this guidance 🙏.
I have been a musician all my life and have had a dedicated passion for the guitar. I've played in bands since my late teens and also love fingerstyle guitar too. That all came to a screeching holt a few years back when I developed severe osteoarthritis in my left thumb. Since then it has spread to much of both hands including the right thumb and I have neuropathic pain in my right forearm, a tendon injury in my right ring finger and weakness in my left forarm due to a demyelination plaque in my spine. I find it nearly impossible to play guitar now so my main passion in life has now been taken from me. Which is why this talk by E. T. is so important... thanks you Eckhart for giving me a deeper understanding of how to deal with the difficult times in our lives.
I’m so glad you had that experience-I dream about it ! It’s awesome . I get it-Ibwas so strong and good at my job helping others in physical pain. I am just drained from the “hustle “ of trying to get folks to understand how amazing the body is at self healing
I am very very grateful for this video and these comments. It makes what I’m feeling real. Like I’m not making things up, other people feel/have felt what I’m going through and this is all for a purpose. It sucks right now, but there’s more to look forward to❤️
I am realizing that there are actually MANY....who are in the same place, and who understand. That provides some comfort, to know we are not alone.
@@dragonfly9209 absolutely!
I just started to cry reading all the beautiful comments. Going through a really tough time with a deep feeling of meaningless and emptniess right now.
Just to see that you are not alone and that there are so many people sending you love and wishing you the best made me so happy. Feeling much stronger right now. So thank you guys for that. Thank you so much.
Sending all my love and power to everyone reading this. We are in this together and we will make it through.
Guess evolution is always painful. Like everyone who has gone through have said, acceptance , surrendering works
I like the suggestion to just accept it for what it is; don’t fight it. Thank you
I found this speech like a conversation with me personally. And every sentence he spoke was a positive affirmation for myself and my path right after I was thinking doubts
I have felt for many years now that I seem to be going through the dark night of the soul. Many cycles of my life I have felt to be in the belly of the whale. Then at times, I feel as though I have been " lost in the forest". Then it feels as though I wake up and begin to " recognize myself" again. These cycles of light and dark have been my life experience for over 60 years. I never feel totally at peace.
Same for me. Thank you it's so well said!
Thank you Juju, for sharing such initimate information. I can relate deeply. You described it very well.
This can happen to those also suffering personality disorders. If you haven't been tested or made aware, it may shed some light on how it can be managed.
It is very tiring.
Let it all go
You are more than your emotions
Get outside of your own story you tell yourself all day and help someone else....
Try it
Let it all go
Thank you, Heer Tolle ♥️ seems like I am right in it since I freed myself from addictions and dropped into silence. This complete emptiness and lack of meaning and love is painful and scary. Cause it’s first time in my life i feel like i am depressed.
The hope you speak about warms my heart and I am here to surrender to the experience
Please surrender and you will eventually emerge a better person. God loves you.
Sending you love for what you are living
This life has been so difficult. I yearn for an awakening in my soul. I just feel lost and alone. But I am trying. Through it all, I try. And I search for meaning. I hope, in time, I find what my soul searches for.
Thank you, Dr. Tolle
How do you feel now? Much love and peace ❤️☮️🙏
with sadness comes a day of happiness we could never imagine. with tears comes a day of ever lasting laughter. whoever is feeling pain, feeling like they are in a place they could never recover from feel free to reach out and we can talk and learn from one another. remember to put your mind into things only you can control and if it's not in your control let it soak outside your mind. you're never alone. I am here free of charge❤️ may you one day feel the sun as if you are the closest thing to it, and have a smile as if you've never heard something so funny. love you.
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Lies
@@guilhermepicolloduarte8110 what is lies?
This abyss is so deep, the stones for which I step upon are fading, there is no bottom, this is not life, all is taken.
I have been experiencing this on and off for almost 17 yrs since my mother passed away at the age of 68. She basically dropped dead. I have been trying now for so long to understand why GOD, whom my mother loved and praised, would allow to her to experience the kind of death she had. From what my sister told me me it was traumatic for my mother and for all involved. I watched another video from Mr. Tolle the other day about what happens after death and was comforted and was able to realize that when my mother died she left her body and what was left was a shell/husk that had sustained her spirt or essence. She had gone to the place where we all will go when we die . Heaven she called it but I call it the great beyond. I hope get to see her and my father and all my long gone friends when I die. I feel a bit better then days and hope to one day heal.
The Dark Night of the Soul is profound and highly transformative, bringing us to a more authentic way of living and relating to ourselves and the world around us. The Ego death is so painful at first, yet glorious when it's complete. Thank you for your light and wisdom!! 🕯️✨💥
His words and eyes speak to my soul and I feel understood.
I have been experiencing this very thing. Thought my body could not possibly survive the trauma of it all ... and yet here I am ... listening, shifting ... and growing ... in His grace.
Had a gun in my mouth last week. Gladly, I remembered a saying, "Don't give a permanent solution to a temporary problem."
My life partner, soulmate, husband ... transitioned 13 months ago and has not reached back in any way my senses can confirm since then. We had an agreement.
Thank you for sharing insight, hope, and compassion in such a clear and concise manner.
This video is helping me lossen my death grip and walk out of the darkness ... and hopefully, shift my perspective upwards. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I have lived (through this) experience.
And am still.
That could be taken both ways.
I think Eckhardt has a point w be with it AND go and be with some kind experienced people.
I send you Love, comfort, hugs, a cup of tea, listening ear, shated tears, a walk, breatjing n meditation.n
Be the love you seek for the people still with you. You have much love to give and purpose. Let the sunlight through your window send you healing love as it touches your back. Let the wind wrap you with it’s loving embrace. Keep looking at the stars. If any of this send you comfort I hope❤ There will be days when nature does bring healing. Until then receive any hugs from even the littlest souls as love sent from God.
Acceptance and surrender - two words that I have learnt the true meaning of by Eckhart and have helped me in life so very much.
It is excruciating painful. It lasted many years. I’m almost out of it now. Don’t give up.
Painful in terms of terrible depression or something else?
It was the most difficult experience I ever had. But it was there to bring me back home to myself.
I found your book in the streets of new york, I pulled over and I had no idea what I was about to read, but your name rang a bell so I picked your book from the three books on the ground, I am so grateful I picked your book, its beginning to make sense all of it.
For me it was like the wave I was riding crashed suddenly without warning and I was totally unprepared. Excellent description sir. Thank you
I went through this dark night of the soul in 2006, when I completely lost my faith in God. It was terrible and lasted almost 10 years. In this dark forest I became a convinced atheist and a radical materialist. Finally I had a transcendent Experience where I was pure love for everything and everyone, supreme happiness, indescribable peace, peaceful light, unlimited harmony... It lasted a few seconds and changed my life deeply and completely: I was light floating in an ocean of absolute love, happiness, peace, harmony and completeness. Indescribable, actually. It was as if a love bomb exploded inside me, inside my heart. Everything was Love, a living, vibrant, explosive, devouring, powerful love...