Short conversational transcript in which Eckhart Tolle recounts being diagnosed with cancer, describing an intensified state of presence during the ordeal, readiness to die or to be healed, and later being told after surgery that he was free of cancer. The piece emphasizes inner presence as central to his experience and the eventual positive medical outcome.
I had some trouble with part of my body.
And then I went to.
A medical exam.
And the man.
Said, you have cancer.
Which was strange.
Because I thought I.
Could never have cancer.
Because I'm mostly at peace. I'm fairly present. Don't do a lot of useless thinking. But that.
State of presence suddenly intensified.
Enormously. And it went on for days and days and days.
Because you never know with cancer.
You could be dead within six months, or you could be alive longer. Who knows? Nobody knows.
There was nothing left.
Of me except an alert presence.
And I was ready to go at any time. And I was also.
Ready be healed.
And then 10 days later, a phone call came.
They will operate on you.
And then I had another exam.
And they said after the operation, well.
You seem to be.
Free now of cancer.
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