Excerpted from Chapter 7 of Eckhart Tolle and Oprah on line sessions at
Oprah.com:




OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): … I want to move on to abundance, and there was a
question that I had earlier that you had on here about abundance, I love
that question. But there's a lot in Chapter 7 about abundance and that we
are not the little me that we think we are.


You say on page 190. "Whatever you think the world is withholding from you,
you are withholding from the world. And you are withholding it because deep
down you think you're small and that you have nothing to give. Try this for
a couple of weeks and see how it changes your reality: Whatever you think
people are withholding from you -- praise, appreciation, assistance, loving,
care, and so on -- give it to them."


So is abundance -- I was looking -- do you have that question to put back
here, the abundance question that somebody had asked in e-mail? What's so
great about this, I think, is that it's something people can do every day
right now, is to start to give that which you say you most want.



ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes. And it starts with recognizing
external abundance. That if the act of recognition that there's external
abundance -- and what that is we'll see in a second -- is the act of
recognition of external abundance already brings out the abundance that is
an essential part of your very being. So when you recognize abundance
without -- and what I'm suggesting there is to look at -- walking past a
store where there's a display of fruit, apples, oranges, and you see the
abundance and the aliveness that is there; acknowledge it there. Abundance
doesn't mean that you need to buy many things. You can buy or not buy. But
it's the -- you see the abundance of water, rain falling from the sky;
there's an abundance of water. There's an abundance of aliveness. There's an
abundance of joy in the dog that's going past you there. And so to recognize
-- to see the abundance that surrounds you, even if you're very poor in the
eyes of the world, the abundance is always there around you, but you need to
recognize it; acknowledge it. And another word for that is "gratitude."



OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): I know. I was going to say, that's why I've kept a
gratitude journal for years.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): If you keep a gratitude journal listing -- I do, the
same, just five things in the day that made you most grateful -- what you
start to notice is that there are more things added to your list, and you
don't even have time to write them all.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): And when you start to pay attention to the things.
Okay. And you also say, "Acknowledging the good that is already in your life
is the foundation for all abundance."


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes. And again, many people make that
mistake because they believe that, "There is nothing good in my life." And
that's absurd. It means they are not present, they are trapped in certain
stories in their head, which tell them continuously that, "There is nothing
good in my life." And if they only opened their eyes and looked around, and
if they smelled the air, saw the sunlight, the most abundant thing you can
see is the sun.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Well, I think the most abundant thing you can have is
your breath.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): The breath.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Come back to your breath.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): It's beautiful, yes.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yes, come back to the breath.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): So you can be with that.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): When you can't think of anything to be grateful for,
go to your breath.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Breath, or the aliveness in your hands
and in your arms, to feel that.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Well, the e-mail question from Rose Anita in Georgia
was to ask you to please explain what you mean by "abundance comes to those
who already have."


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes. Now, abundance, you need to
recognize that as coming from within you. Abundance is not external things
that come to you that make you abundant. Abundant is the energy that flows
out of you, out of the being of who you are into this world. So the
beginning of -- you initiate this process by recognizing the abundance
that's all around you externally.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): "Outflow determines inflow."


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): And then it suddenly, the recognition
already draws it out, you see? OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): I was going to say,
isn't gratitude in itself an energy field that draws more to you?


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Isn't it its own vibrational frequency that draws more
to you?


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): That's what I interpreted you saying.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): That's it.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Is that gratitude is its own energy field.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): And that when you acknowledge and are grateful for
whatever you have, when you can see and feel the gratitude, experience the
gratitude in whatever you have, that changes your vibrational
frequency…literally.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): And allows more to be drawn to you.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes. It changes your entire reality. It
changes the way in which you experience life.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yes it does.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): It changes your world. And so it's -- if
that's the only thing people remember, there are many things in this book,
but just if they want to change their lives, they're not happy with their
lives, bring gratitude into it, which is, of course, connected also to the
present moment because it's only, "Here in this moment…what is it in this
moment that I can be grateful for?"


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Be grateful for.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): And then you suddenly say, "Oh, it's all
that." There's always -- it's miraculous if you truly look around and sense
and feel, it's miraculous. The entire universe is miraculous.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yes.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): And when you are so trapped in your
thoughts that you don't see this anymore, then the entire universe becomes
dead to you and there's nothing new that ever arises.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): You know, I was practicing this this weekend, I was
saying to Eckhart before we started that I was under the weather and had an
obligation in New Orleans and wasn't able to fulfill that commitment, and
normally I would've just been beating myself up about it, cause I've never
had to cancel anything before, but I decided to be with the fact that I was
sick. And I had one of the happiest days of my life being sick in bed
because I accepted it and was not fighting the fact that I wasn't well. I
thought, "I'm going to be with feeling badly, and I'm going to appreciate
everything about the day." So every cup of tea that Stedman brought me, I
was happy. And happy that I was, you know, I had clean sheets. I mean -- and
happy that I could open the curtains and there was sun coming through the
window. Just -- and I just had the most happy time being sick in bed. Yeah.
So that's what you're talking about.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Being able to be grateful where you are.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes, very, very powerful.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yeah, if I hadn't read this book, I might not have
been able to do that. So it's been very helpful to me.

[...]


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): …. You can be grateful for things that
on the surface don't look so good. When you accept what is, you're grateful
whatever situation arises. Let's say your car breaks down and you have to
change the tire in the middle of the night, and even there you can say,
"Okay," we come to this later in the book…


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yes.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): You begin sometimes, a so-called
negative situation -- begins with not resisting it.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yes.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): And so…


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Don't you say in The Power of Now -- I just
interrupted a thought.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yeah.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): But don't you say in The Power of Now that all stress
comes from resisting the present moment?


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes. It doesn't come from the situation,
it comes from your thoughts about the situation.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Because the tire needing to be changed by itself could
not cause you to be stressed.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): No, there's no -- it just is as it is.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): It is as it is.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): And if you can see that, then suddenly
you move into that, and even there comes gratitude.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): Yes. So your stress is about wanting the moment to be
different than what it is.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): And that's whether it's a tire, losing your job,
losing a loved one.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes.

[…]


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): [reading] "And abundance comes only to those who
already have it," page 192. "It sounds almost unfair, but of course it
isn't. It is a universal law. Both abundance and scarcity are inner states
that manifest as your reality. Jesus put it like this: 'For to the one who
has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he has will
be taken away.'"

And he's not talking about things.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): No.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): He's talking about your inner state of gratitude for
what you already have.


ECKHART TOLLE (AUTHOR A NEW EARTH): Yes.


OPRAH WINFREY (HOST): And your life will change.




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