Going through a Dark Night of the Soul? Make Sure You Watch This! - Eckhart Tolle Explains
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2022
- Are you experiencing a dark night of the soul? Eckhart shares that he has experienced it himself and discusses how this is a great opportunity for awakening.
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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. ❤
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
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
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, dr.porass. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac.
He's constantly talking about killing someone.
He's violent. Anyone reading this
Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Is he on instagram?
Yes he is dr.porass.
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!
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 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.
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
@@Lorraine111 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
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 :(
❤️🙏🥰
🙏🏻❤️
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🙏💥❤️
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
@@heIsNoMore 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.
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?
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 🥰
@@crystalH30me too ❤
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 🤗💝
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
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 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.
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!
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 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!
💗💗💗
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 ✨💜
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.
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 UA-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 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 👏
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 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
🖤🙏🏾 death of old self, birth of true self
I recently quit drinking after 20 years of somewhat continuous alcoholism. It feels like i have died. I'm scared.
@@lanachild7731 It will pass.
@@lanachild7731how is your new life full of miracles? I read this today and it is now a year later. I would love to hear your come up in this short year.
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. 🙏
10 f***ing years of this, almost 10 years in the dark night of the soul! I'm so exhausted, I just don't know, I hope, I'll live to tell the tale eventually. And if not I'm so looking forward to see my grandma again. I love you,grandma!!! ❤❤❤
U got this
I completely understand.. you can make it through
Learn to breathe and live in Silence until the Dawn comes. Stay true and steadfast.
What are the thoughts you are having and how are they violent towards yourself?
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
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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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 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 ❤
I am in perfect health
I am strong and polite
I have a healthy mind body and soul
I love myself
I accept everyone
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?
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 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
@@eoinbrennan3949 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
@@eoinbrennan3949 Also...C.S. Lewis---"A Grief Observed"
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
@@OpenheartOneMind 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 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
I have lost everyone and I’m in so much pain. I quit my career in law enforcement after 11 years and I’m in the process of selling my home to move closer to a flight school I want to attend. My best friend moved to another state for work, I’ve been single for 3 years, and my family has disowned my because I refuse to have children. I truly have no one and no support. I’m scared to death & feel an immense sense of loss during this painful, yet somewhat hopeful transitional period in my life. I am tired of doing this all on my own. Most days, I can barely go longer than a few hours without crying or tearing up. I’m not sleeping. I know I’m being isolated… but I truly have no one. I’m all on my own here and it just really really hurts. I can’t see the forest through the trees right now. If this is my dark night of the soul, it is pitch black. I’m just tired..
You’re not alone. Stay strong or embrace weakness or otherwise getting what you need :)
Hello hope you are doing better, now ❤
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.
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'm going thru eviction from my home of 23 years, and can hardly keep it together. Just moment to moment. I hope this despair ends soon.
Are you alright?
How are you now? Hopefully much better? Much love ❤️
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.
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
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.
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
Well said.! That is me. I'm unable to accept the change and the loss. I'm just suffering. Looking for away to accept and be happy again. 🙏hope you found peace and happiness. 🙏
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.
I have been going through this dark night of the soul for a decade and feel as though I have lost those 1o years (so far) of my life. I'm 70 now and sometimes I think the awakening that this dark night is leading to is my death.
I don't know your personal circumstances.....I feel for you.....I hope things are getting brighter for you. ❤
Sending lots of love and light ❤✨️. I hope things are much better for you now, no matter how empty you feel.
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.
The ego dies. The soul awakes.
‘Nothing real has died, but an illusionary identity’
Mind blown 🤯
My son died at 17 and my husband at 37. I already had serious depression issues before they died. I’m ready to come back out of the dark night. I’ve been deep in it for over 20 years now. Enough is enough.
I know the emptiness all too well.
Shrooms therapy
I experienced a dark night of the soul that began on the 21st of September last year. I can pin point the moment it started. I spent months in bed and felt I was dying. I even gave my rings to my daughter so I could tell her the story behind each one incase I didn’t make it through. I wasn’t sure what was happening til I stumbled across a video about it. I recovered but I know I am not living authentically. It is becoming harder each day to pretend. I think for people who say they have gone through a dark night of the soul for years on end are perhaps in the same situation. Carrying on with the same life after awakening is soul crushing. Change isn’t as simple as walking out the door and starting over.
Yes, you can't carry on living the same life after. You have to find a way to live authentically.
@@moonhunter9993 Easier said than done. People don’t like to hear that you’re biding your time and faking it.
@@nataliehilton1537 Don't fake it then. We can change even if our circumstances cannot change at the same speed. My experience is that sometimes you have to first accept a situation completely before you can change it.
Yep I had it about a year ago and I've been doing soooooooooo much trauma therapy and I'm doing so oooooooooooo much better now you can't even imagine
@@solomontruthlover5308 I was doing well and feel like I’m back at square one again. Who knows how many times I will have to go through this process. As many times as it takes to get it right I guess.
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 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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The amount of times he blinks here tells me he is recalling his dark night and staying grounded to reduce his flashbacks.
Heavenly father, Almighty, and holy mother - come back after eons and help to restore "this" beautiful world
A very humbling experience as we realize we are not beliefs or concepts and we don't fit into the concepts and beliefs in society or family. It feels like we don't know who we are and we have no place to go and nothing to accomplish in a crazy making world. We accept being nothing and no one and then one day from the silence I heard from within my Self..."when you are nothing in the world. You are everything to God "... and finally I felt an extreme profound freedom and I laughed. The dark night is called Undoing the Ego.
Just passed that Night🙏after my wife wanted separation. With 77 years being on my own brought all kind of deep thoughts and feelings as Eckhart describes here (suicide, killing, hopelessness…) and suddenly one day it’s all gone and and calm is the new reality. Doing what to do, or later, or not, just be with mySelf😅
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.
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.
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.
I went through my dark night of the soul in 2009. Everything that was my life then, came to an end. For 10 months, I cried every day. The first 6 months were pure agony. I just sobbed for hours everyday from the most indescribable pain. I wanted to die, but didn't believe in suicide. I had been a born again Christian for many years and had a strong faith in God, so I clung to Jesus and His Word with everything in me, because I knew He was the only one who could deliver me from the deep dark pit I was in. It was like I God put me in "spiritual bootcamp" and the Holy Spirit became my training instructor from that time forward. I have learned SO many things in the last 13 years I never would've learned had I not had to depend on God alone.
Sounds like me when my fiancé of 13 years left for another woman. I felt he was my soul mate, and we got along so well. I was destroyed. Worse pain of my life. So glad I found a way out of the darkness
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?
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 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 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.😢
Feels like my whole life has been a Dark Night of the Soul, and at 61 I’m exhausted. All I can do is keep walking HOME, where LOVE and PEACE await for the weary.
The Dark Night of the soul is a long, depressing, and very dark experience that can continue for days, months or even years.
After my initial awakening phase, the spiritual awakening was not always a joyful process for me. Often I felt confused, frustrated, angry, sad, grieving, or “out of place”. It felt like the end of my known world with my its old habits and conditioning. Whatever life I had built on a competing, achieving, and acquiring mentality was not resonating with me anymore. Life was making no sense to me
If you’re experiencing the Dark Night of the Soul, you are feeling a sense of being lost. Your heart is in anxiety as if your world with its known habits and conditioning is coming to an End. This is because, after a spiritual awakening, your conditioned mind pattern is dying. While dying, your mind is making you feel miserable by re-identifying yourself with its old dysfunctional patterns.
After The Dark Night of The Soul, my inner being shined like a sun, and deep down, I started to feel its presence.
While a spiritual awakening is the process of rebirth of everything you are! The dark night of the soul is the process of dying of everything you are not!
What a gift Eckhart is
I went through the dark night of the soul after 15 years of narcissistic abuse and mobbing at work. It gave me the coup de grace after a short relationship with a 'lady' with narcissistic personality disorder (this seemed to be my topic for half of my life). Trauma and PTSD for 3 years. As far as I can tell, the dark night of the soul is also quite comparable to an epileptic seizure, which I also suffered from for almost 20 years. The DNOTS is just like a seizure in ultraslow motion, but completely conscious and fully aware of the unbearable pain during the whole time.
The “Dark night of the soul” is the worst thing happened to me! 11.11.2021 I’ve never going to forget that date!
@@paul479 almost 6 months!
But the first 3 days were extremely intense!
12-31-2020
Hey how are you doing now? Any tips on how to get through it? Much love ❤️
@@OpenheartOneMind it’s been a couple of years since I posted that! Now I’m feeling like “reborn”! I went through big and smalls DNS during those 2 years. Basically the pain was going down slowly in a different periods. I tracked it and I could call it “cycle”. It was something like:
2-3 months being in a hole 🕳️ and depressed with different intensity!
2-4 weeks “back to matrix” 3D world and feeling normal.
Now I don’t feel the pain anymore. I became stronger mentally, emotionally and physically. Not triggered by any situations that could unlock bad feelings and pain.
All I can say now is gratitude 🙏🏻 to God, Universe and my Guide who help me going through out this personal growth and development.
I don’t know what stage of DNS you are but to all of you there!!!!!!!
Believe me, this is for your spiritual growth. All these sleepless night, all emotional pain, all these bad feelings, and after that isolation…
You are going to be best version of yourself and you’ll appreciate that journey given by the Creator!!!
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.
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.
I understand this very well. Im the last of my line, many losses, the last one in 2021.
I firge my own way now, but because I don't live by what others think, I'm seen as some kind of witch.
It's hard, waiting for others to catch up.
You're not a witch. You're a beautiful human being, no matter if others can see that right now. I really hope you're feeling much better 🙏.
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,
Classic classic classic human experience. Someone great once said if you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on. It too shall pass ❤
Surrendering to pass through the dark night of the soul quickly. Thank you for this guidance 🙏.
It was the most difficult experience I ever had. But it was there to bring me back home to myself.
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 have guilt. I told others that i was a scapegoat. I only said the truth but i feel so guilty. I admit i was mad but now im spiraling between remorse and guilt...
How strange! This describes exactly what I have been experiencing over the last months! 😲
Had this experience, Eckhart helped me a ton to get THROUGH it.
It’s like nothing makes sense, and nothing even matters… I just know I just want to have peace of love around me
i love how slow he talks and allows you to think about what hes saying along w him
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.
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!
I am going through this. I am redefining who I am. I feel like I'm disidentifying to cope with the loss. I feel stuck and I can't continue to be stuck..it hurts too much. I accept, I surrender. I wan't to break through.
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.
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 ❤️☮️🙏
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
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
I've known a few people ( a couple of friends and also my Dad ) who thought - so very desperately - that the only way to end it was through self-activated body death (suicide). I see teachers [like Gangaji, Eckhart Tolle to name a couple, all the way to Seekers of Sobriety & Sanity from N.A. and A.A....to practices like Yoga & Meditation... and even maybe the guy down the street who brings you a casserole on Saturdays because he likes to cook] as assistants offering assistance to help the suffering human continue trudging forth until awakening.
Thank you. During this week, i experienced it few times and i couldnt explain it to myself. Now i got a explanation for that "ups and downs" and i'm always telling myself: trust the process. And now here i am, profiting from wisdom.
One thing for all the people that are or will be in that situation: Dont distract yourself with entertainment or your phone! sleep or meditate. Eat clean and take care of your body. If you love art and creativity, try it out. in general, it feels more rewarding to be productive - for your benefit - than just consuming. If you love energetic music, dont listen all day and every day. Use it as stimulation.