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The Purpose of Your Life Is Becoming Conscious

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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The Inherent Consciousness

As I see it, life is inherent. And consciousness is inherent in everything that we see. So you don't have a life, you are life. What are you apart from life? No thing. There's only one life manifesting in different forms. And you are that. That's the misperception of the ego. Here's me. I've been put here by who knows how and by whom. The animal mind could be compared to becoming vaporized water. We don't want to go too far with these analogies. It's not me. Not me. This is me."

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