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The Ego and the Need to Be Right

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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Are You Identifying With Your Mental Position?

Egoic mental position is a group of thoughts or one thought to be identified means, as you probably know, is you derive your sense of self from certain thoughts. These are egoic thoughts and this is quite normal for most people to have to be in the grip of that. Now if you can be aware while it happens, you're already beginning to step out of it. You may not be able to stop yourself at that point. But there is an observing presence in the background that is, there's some presence that can't yet change the situation. So nature can help you to use nature a lot and practice stillness when you're not being challenged. gradually the power of still

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