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The Most Difficult People In Your Life Are Your Greatest Teachers

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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The Unconscious State of Thinking

When the experience or moment of pure presence, thinking subsides, and what remains is pure presence, then there's no ego. So you're free, you've transcended the ego, then it comes back usually. Now it does not mean that all thinking is ego. Thinking turns into ego in the complete absence of awareness. You are possessed by thought, and you derive your sense of identity from that stream of thinking. And it is always a problematic identity. It makes life difficult for yourself and for others.

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