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Dealing With Expectations

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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You Are Not Happy When Something Good Happens to Someone Close to You

Ego is a desire on the part of the ego to enhance its sense of worthiness. If anybody has less than you or appears less than you, it seems to add something to your sense of self. And in reverse, it feels to the ego as if somebody has just achieved something that you haven't achieved. So it gets deflated, and and is not happy. You're really trapped in ego.

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