This is a YouTube video titled "Eckhart Tolle: How To Be Happy NO MATTER WHAT!" featuring a talk by Eckhart Tolle discussing how to find happiness by aligning with the present moment rather than being solely focused on future achievements or acquisitions. The content explores the concepts of the vertical (present moment) and horizontal (past and future) dimensions of life and emphasizes the power of presence and consciousness for deep satisfaction. The video was created in July 2025.
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How does someone be happy while they're on the path of trying to manifest, you know, more in their life more A better relationship or better qualities that they have in their current relationship? More career, success, money, things like this. How can they be happy? No matter what happens, it comes to you or it doesn't.
Happiness starts with the alignment with the present moment. It can only arise if you are aligned with the present moment. I sometimes call that the vertical dimension of life, which is now and then there's a horizontal dimension of life is where it's past and future and you have a goal you're working towards. That's fine. You have the horizontal dimension. And the vertical dimension is the present moment. The horizontal dimension is a dimension of becoming. You become good at something, or you acquire something, you become something. There's an evolutionary process at work and that obviously has its place. It's there. But if you're exclusively focused on becoming and achieving, entertaining and acquiring, you're trapped on the horizontal. And you can never really enjoy the present moment. Because the present moment, the vertical dimensions here now inseparable from the now. The cross, the symbol of the cross one could interpret as. Which is an ancient, even predates Christianity. The symbol of a cross can be interpreted as pointing to the intersection between the horizontal and vertical dimension of life. That is, the importance then, is to discover the dimension, the vertical dimension, which is the power of the now, the present moment. And then the horizontal dimension actually works better. And you're not dependent on it for your ultimate satisfaction. You're not dependent on any kind of achievement, attainment or whatever it is that the horizontal dimension for your art, it may give you some kind of satisfaction, but not the deepest satisfaction. The deepest satisfaction is inseparable from going more deeply into the present moment. And discover the essence of who or what you are as consciousness itself, presence here and now. In other words, you could say you sense the beingness of you. You sense that you are. And there is an enormous power there that has no form. You can't interpret it. It's the power of aliveness itself.
