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Awakening From The Dream State: Finding Balance Between Being And Doing

Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings

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The Mind-Made Entity

The thinking is happening, and that belongs to the realm of doing. In most cases, it's not you who does the thinking. You are not doing it. So I sometimes say you don't think you are being thought, you're being created by the involuntary and compulsive movement of thought which is conditioned by the past. This involuntary compulsive movement creates a mind-made kind of entity, a sense of self, and for most people that's who they perceive themselves to be. And so you live with this entity. There's a good analogy,. one could use, one could use this as a concept, and one could use it as a concept. And you're dreaming the dream

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