Eckhart TolleNYT Bestselling author of the Power of Now

When Spirituality Gets Tested by Real Loss | Eckhart Tolle

25 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from an Eckhart Tolle talk describing an anecdote where an acquaintance lost most of her life savings after investing 90% of her money with a New York investment company run by someone called Madoff (a Ponzi scheme). The anecdote highlights the challenge of applying spiritual teachings when confronted with sudden material loss.

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90%.

In New York, in an investment company run by somebody called Madoff.

A Ponzi scheme.

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Acquaintance of mine had invested 90% of her money in New York in an investment company run by somebody called Madoff. And she's quite spiritual. And one day the phone call came and told her about Mr. Madoff. It was a Ponzi scheme, as the expression goes. So the whole thing evaporated. Everybody's savings evaporated. And she immediately called a friend. Well, you know what happened? It's all gone. All over. My life's work, all the fruit of my life's work is gone. And the friend says, well, think about your spiritual teachings and what you. And she said, this is not the time to be spiritual.