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Obstacles To Awakening

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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I Am a Victim, I Am a Victim

The ego will very quickly find one of the most powerful ways of being superior, and that is you become a victim. The moment you have a mental concept of yourself as a victim, whether a collective victim or personal victim, by implication, you are morally superior to everybody else who is not a victim. To make that into a basis for your sense of self is a huge prison that you voluntarily enter, but it amplifies the ego.

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