Eckhart TolleNYT Bestselling author of the Power of Now

Why Something Good Always Turns Into Unhappiness

7 Jan 2026 · 0 min

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Excerpt from a YouTube video by Eckhart Tolle in which the speaker observes that happiness produced by external events (winning the lottery, getting a promotion, falling in love) is typically temporary: what initially makes you happy often later turns into unhappiness or is undermined by other events. The clip presents this as an opening claim about the transient nature of externally triggered happiness.

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