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The Ego and the Need to Be Right

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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Who Are You Without Your Past Right Now?

Your sense of identity is no longer derived from the content of your mind, but it shifts. It's an identity that is very powerful. The power of the universe itself is there, but it doesn't have concepts in it. How could you if you have no concept about who you are? And your past becomes irrelevant because your past is an accumulation of thoughts. You have to think about your past for the past to exist. So all that becomes irrelevant to who you are. Don't remember your past, let go of it. Just let go of any concept that tell you who you are."

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