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Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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What Is the Voice in the Head?

Some anthropologists have put forward the theory that when thinking first started happening in humans, of course, it coincided with words. So as they started to use language, the thinking grew developed. And you begin to believe that there's some ultimate reality in the sound that you create for yourself. Thatt was the beginning of gradually, very gradually, becoming identified with the voice in the head. Now we've reached a stage where almost every human is identified with the narrative,. It talks to them sometimes in the first person, ay, sometimes in the second person - which means you talk to yourself. You can have a dialogue even be a third person. If you were a hundred % identified with the

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