Are Your Goals in the Right Place?

The ego, spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle says, is our misplaced identification with things, thoughts and desires, and we have to free ourselves from the grip of this illusion. But if that's the case, model and fashion designer Kidada Jones wonders, where's the fun in life? Kidada says she's excited about her career and starting a family, but she worries she's deriving too much satisfaction from the material world, which seems incompatible with Eckhart's teachings. Watch as Eckhart reveals why personal ambition and spirituality aren't necessarily opposed to one another.

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