Eckhart TolleNYT Bestselling author of the Power of Now

The Real Meaning of Salvation

20 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this excerpt from Eckhart Tolle’s talk “The Real Meaning of Salvation,” he explains that true salvation is the liberation from identifying solely with the limited, historical personality. When a person knows only this conditioned self and remains unaware of the deeper Being that underlies existence, they are trapped in constant fear and transform every life challenge into suffering. The unconnected, historically conditioned entity is therefore condemned to experience suffering, highlighting the need to recognize one’s true Being as the path to salvation.

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The real meaning of salvation is salvation from only knowing yourself as that limited entity, salvation from the heaviness of life and the fear, the constant fear that is your companion when you only know yourself as the historical person, but you do not know the Being that you are. The historical conditioned entity, the person, unconnected, unaware of its Being, is condemned to experiencing suffering and will transform every challenge of life into suffering.