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A New Earth: The Core of Ego (Chapter 3)

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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The Ego Arose in the Evolution of Consciousness

Eckhart: The ego arose because we started to think. So the ability in humans, suddenly humans develop the ability to differentiate and to think. And gradually, out of this continuous identification with the movement of thought, a thought-made entity was produced, which is the ego. But don't we obviously need the ego, Eckhart? Otherwise, why would we have it? Why wouldn't we have evolved past it? That's, we're doing that now. Yes.

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