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The Most Important Thing to Realize Is the Deep I

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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The Egoic Identity Needs the Otherness of Others

The egoic identity needs the otherness of others to enhance their own identity. Without the other you cannot define your identity anymore, or race. When you disagree with somebody then you strengthen the otherness and that defines who you are more. Nobody is more unconscious than a person engaged in being right. We'll be going into the deep eye, don't worry, but what stands in the way of the deep eye? It's easy to overlook, I mentioned that here because these things are obstacles towards the realisation of the essence of who you are.

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