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The Deep I

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

CHAPTER

Know Yourself as Consciousness

You are here in a particular form, and you don't need to deny that. You can acknowledge it, honor it also, without mistaking it for your true identity. So the form, whether it's to do with your race or your national identity, it is all fine. But there's no ultimate self in there. Noyou look after the body, exercise neutrition. It's like a house you inhabit temporarily. And then comes the enormously liberating realization that there's more to you than anything on the level of form. That's the true meaning of knowing yourself as consciousness.

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