This is a YouTube video titled "The Power of Believing: Eckhart Tolle on Manifestation Principles" created in May 2024. The content features Eckhart Tolle discussing the concept of faith and manifestation, referencing teachings of Jesus and exploring the limits and possibilities of manifesting desires through belief and practice. The talk includes examples related to physical and mental limitations, the importance of dedication and practice, and the role of the present moment in achieving mastery and manifestation.
Now when you read what Jesus said, when you have face. Face is the faith in the terms that Jesus used is to be connected with the. The power within you that is inseparable from the source consciousness. When you have faith, you can tell a mountain, go, move from here to there and it will happen. Now there could be a kind of parable or analogy or some people might want to take it literally. He also said, as you know, I've said before, the one statement that is that encapsulates the entire secret about manifestation. Jesus said, when you ask for something, believe that you have received it and it will be yours. They just encapsulate, believe that you have received it. I've spoken about that at length in other sessions. To believe that you have received it is to feel connected with the. The. The essence of being where you. Anything else is. That's the cream. Everything else is the skimmed milk. So if you have the cream, you can manifest anything in the realm of the skimmed milk. Now to. In more that would mean that you can entirely change. If the statement about the mountain is to be taken literally, then it would be you saying that it is possible to completely change external reality, so called physical reality, simply by the power of your mind. And I believe that is the destiny of humans. Eventually humans will be able to simply manifest through the mind. If that were the. At the moment. No. To sum it a few. You can. You can manifest quite a bit. Not immediately. You always need a little bit of time. Mostly there's a lot you can do and even sometimes things that you think might be almost impossible, that is too far, that is possible to manifest. But. But there are limitations. You're absolutely right to what? And you need to recognize those limitations so that you are not engaged in completely useless manifestation practice aiming at something that is not within the realm of possibility. For example, let's say I suddenly got it into my mind that I going to participate in whatever capacity in the Olympic Games, the next Olympic Games, whenever they are going to be. And I'm going to win a gold medal in boxing or whatever, or jumping or whatever it is. And no matter how powerful my manifestation is, that is not going to happen. So I know that is an impossibility. Or I want. Let's say I got it into my mind I want to become the world's greatest ballet dancer, okay? Now, if I'd been 10 years old, it might have worked. But it's not going to happen, that's for sure. No matter how powerful my manifestation practice is. So there are now these things Are kind of obvious that there are physical limitations to what you can do or what your body can do. There may also be mental manifestations. Sometimes people have an image in their mind of what they want to be. But I remember watching years ago when we still had cable television, American Idol. American Idol is all these people who perform. They want to be chosen as the great. The next American Idol in all kinds of singing and dancing and so on. And one is sometimes amazed at the discrepancy between what people thought of themselves, how good they were at singing or dancing and how bad they actually were when they performed. It's just. The discrepancy was just incredible. They thought they were. They were the potential greatest singer, but they were just awful. Just everybody could see they can now that's. Now that could be that they have. That they haven't practiced enough. It could be that they haven't. That they forgot that in order to achieve mastery in anything, you have to focus your mind and you have to enjoy what you're doing for quite some time before power flows into what you do. So they have just a mental projection. I'm going to be a rock star. But then all this, the practice, you have to live it. You have to live the music. You have to live. Or you compose the music and you live it every day. And you live your instrument becomes part of your very being. And you live it and you enjoy it. And then. And then you go into the subway and you play there for a year or two. And then you go somewhere else, a little behind. You play there. So many great stars have started. And then you leave. And there was this book, I can't remember the title. He found only looked at various great musicians and dancers which achieved great things. He calculated that they had 10,000 hours of practice before mastery was achieved. And something was able to flow through them that was. Made them great. With the Beatles, for example, he examined how many. For how many years the Beatles performed in little. In just little bars and in Liverpool and then in Hamburg they were performing in little beer cellars and tiny bars. And he calculated and he came to the Average figure of 10,000 hours. 10,000 hours of practice. And that's so very often the people don't achieve the heaven. The goal may not be totally unrealistic, it may be within the realm of possibility. But what they miss is the intervening. The journey towards the goal. And they don't enjoy the journey and they don't want to. The energy is not there to practice every day, to do every day, so that the Power increases and flows through them. Now many, quite a few of those people, they never manifest. They never consciously manifested something. The Beatles, I'm sure it just was a gradual evolutionary process for them before they. What they created was very deeply inspiring. I mean, the songs are relatively simple, but they have an essence. There's something there that makes them. That they'll still be around in two or 300 years time. There's something there that suddenly came and that wasn't there initially. So are you able to enjoy the doing in the present moment? Really comes back to the present moment. Do you enjoy the journey towards it? I. Let's all. Let's say you want to become. People have an image of what they want to become, but are not able to give it attention in the continuous, in the present moment. So that the journey must be joyful to be empowered. So many things are possible now. Even people who seem to have a very bad voice that say this person could never sing. That's not necessarily true. If this person continues, it could happen that something will become through. Look at somebody like who was this jazz singer, very famous African American, very famous jazz singer who had this deep croaky voice. The name escaped me right now. One of the most famous. Louis Armstrong, I think. Was he a jazz singer? Was he? I think he was, yeah. So he had this. And he would say, how could this person ever have a singing career? It's totally impossible. But the strange thing is everybody would have said, there's no chance for you, just do something else. When he. When he did, eventually something happened. It didn't matter anymore that this wasn't normally regarded, not normally regarded as a good singing voice. There was an essence that came through him that used the voice and touched everybody. So that was incredible. If this person had asked anybody, I want to be a singer and says, okay, it's almost what you can do. Please think of something else. So often it is the case and I don't know, I haven't read his biography. I don't know what his past was, what his journey was. But it's amazing that somebody who has such a bad singing voice can create such wonderful songs. Quite Louis are quite amazing. So there are incredible possibilities that the mind would exclude by saying prematurely. So any things. Many things are possible, but some things are not possible.
