{"id":65,"date":"2016-04-14T20:09:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T20:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/?p=65"},"modified":"2016-04-14T20:11:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T20:11:41","slug":"eckhart-tolle-on-finding-your-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/eckhart-tolle-on-finding-your-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Eckhart Tolle on Finding Your Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ECKHART<\/a><\/p>\n

Backstage at Oprah’s Super Soul Sessions 2, Eckhart Tolle speaks<\/span><\/strong><\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

“Many people have not found their sense of specialness. That\u2019s not ego, or comparative, ‘I\u2019m more special than you,’ where you feel superior or inferior to someone else, it\u2019s a specialness that honors the uniqueness of you and the way in which you can contribute in your own unique way to this universe. Who is the \u201cyou\u201d that contributes in this unique way? It\u2019s not the personality \u201cyou\u201d it\u2019s the deeper consciousness that manifests temporarily as \u201cyou\u201d this particular person with a name and a physical body and a psychological entity. The \u201cyou\u201d is you find your specialness when you go deeper into yourself and find the power that transcends the personality\/mind (which can be in service of that)<\/p>\n

“The light of God that shines through every human being is their innermost essential identity. In that sense, you are special because you are an emanation of The One in the same way that the sunlight is an emanation of the sun. When you realize you\u2019re an emanation of that One, you realize your specialness.<\/p>\n

The second is the way that manifests in this outer world: A created work or service with other human beings. It’s\u00a0not everyone\u2019s destiny to create something huge. The frequency holders, people who are happy doing little things, don\u2019t have huge ambitions. They\u2019re happy working as gardeners and enjoy every moment of it. That\u2019s a way of being special, when everyone who comes into contact with you feels better after coming into contact with you. They love what they do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Backstage at Oprah’s Super Soul Sessions 2, Eckhart Tolle speaks: “Many people have not found their sense of specialness. That\u2019s not ego, or comparative, ‘I\u2019m more special than you,’ where you feel superior or inferior to someone else, it\u2019s a specialness that honors the uniqueness of you and the way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-spiritual-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/ECKHART-OPRAH.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7nB6O-13","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/thespirituallife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}