41 - You Have Been Programmed for Unhappiness

A big lie that we were told when we were kids is the following: You need to be loved. When you’re a kid, yes, granted, that’s okay. Let’s not quarrel about that. But what if you’re sixty-four years old? You’re twenty-five years old? They’re still telling you that you need to be l ...  Show more

What does it mean to love? It means to be sensitive to life, to things, to persons, to feel for everything and everyone to the exclusion of nothing and no one. For exclusion can only be achieved through a hardening of oneself, through closing one's doors. And the moment there is ...  Show more

How your twisted mind is tricking you out of happiness. 

Let’s be real for a moment . . . We all sometimes wish we could be happier.We blame all sorts of variables for holding us back from achieving this.We tell ourselves that once we finally find a partner, secure a better job, or lose weight, life will be good and we will finally be ...  Show more

In this podcast, Eckhart answers a question about overcoming suffering and finding happiness. Eckhart says the world is not here to make us happy, it's here to make us conscious. He says the beginning of awakening is the end of suffering. We are liberated from the demand that any ...  Show more

all our conveniences are making our minds less patient / less patient minds are less happy / as soon as you endeavor for happiness it backfires / change your algorithms / you can't be happy unless you're satvic / break the doomscrolling cycles / a zoomed out perspective of his ...