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The Hidden Dimension Within

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

CHAPTER

The Body Is a Thought That You Identify With

Ego is a mind made sense of self that is based on a narrative of me, me and my life. It identifies with things primarily what it identifies with is thought. Everything that becomes a thought, the car becomes the thought of my car. And many people go through their lives, continuously carrying a very strong identification. People don't say, i am a beautiful body - that would sound very strange. You have an ugly in the same way that you have a car, you have a body. So that gradually construct arises in your mind. That is the conditioned sense of self which is conditioned by the past.

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