3min chapter

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings cover image

Releasing Barriers to Presence

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

CHAPTER

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

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode