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A New Earth: Ego: The Current State of Humanity (Chapter 2)

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

CHAPTER

The Illusory Self

Heather introduces this whole idea of the illusory self that you talk about on page 27. You say the word i embodies the greatest error and the deepest truth, depending upon how it is used. Usually people refer to what i call me and my story, which is your personal history that you identify with as yourself. Most people are completely identified with the story that is their successes, their failures, t things that happen to them. That ultimately is not who you are in your essence.

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