How to be around someone you cannot stand | Eckhart Tolle

People often ask Eckhart Tolle what he thought of someone they both met. He says he is usually at a loss, because he had not thought anything about them, and he knows that can be mistaken for something else. What he can say is this. The person is a human being, which is a human and a being put together. The human part is the conditioning, a particular set of patterns and tendencies. And underneath it, to a greater or lesser degree, aware or unaware of itself, is the being. That is all there is to say about anyone. If someone is largely unaware of that deeper dimension, they will be a relatively unconscious human being. But it is not their identity. It is an overlay, and you can learn to see it as one. He is practical about the exceptions: if you can clearly feel that a person is potentially violent, remove yourself if you can. If you cannot, trapped in an elevator perhaps, then be very present while you are with them. The rest of the talk is about what happens when we stop seeing individuals at all, and see only the group we have assigned them to. The opinion arrives before the person, and real communication becomes almost impossible. All of it, he says, comes down to one thing. You do not have to talk about what divides people. You only have to talk about the human mind, and how much awareness is in it. Eckhart goes much further into this in the full session. Join Eckhart Tolle Now to watch. 👇