Eckhart TolleNYT Bestselling author of the Power of Now

Sensing the Being in Other People

17 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief teaching, Eckhart Tolle explains that true empathy involves sensing the underlying "being" behind each person when we interact with them. He asserts that the real meaning of empathy is to recognize that there is no separate other, but a shared essence. When this shared being is sensed, it dissolves the sense of separateness and becomes the foundation of genuine love. The excerpt emphasizes that love arises from this deep recognition of oneness rather than from superficial feelings.

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you are able to sense the being behind the human when you interact with other humans. And that is what is perhaps traditionally called a deep ability for empathy. Empathy is to— the real meaning of empathy is to sense the being of the other, and in sensing the being of the other, realize that there is no other. And so when you sense this shared being, this sensing of the shared being, we can— that is called love, the real love.