“To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition
for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take
responsibility for your inner state at any given moment.”
That means now.
Watch out for thoughts that appear to justify or explain
this unhappiness but in reality cause it. The moment you become aware of a
negative state within yourself, it does not mean you have failed. It means
that you have succeeded. Until that awareness happens, there is
identification with inner states, and such identification is ego. With
awareness comes disidentification from thoughts, emotions, and reactions.
This is not to be confused with denial. The thoughts, emotions, or
reactions are recognized, and in the moment of recognizing,
disidentification happens automatically.
Your sense of self, of who you are, then undergoes a shift:
Before you were the thoughts, emotions, and reactions; now you are the
awareness, the conscious Presence that witnesses those states.
“One day I will be free of the ego.” Who is talking? The
ego. To become free of the ego
is not really a big job but a very small one. All you need
to do is be aware of your thoughts and emotions—as they happen. This is
not really a “doing,” but an alert “seeing.”
In that sense, it is true that there is nothing you can do
to become free of the ego. When that shift happens, which is the shift
from thinking to awareness, an intelligence far greater than the ego’s
cleverness begins to operate in your life. Emotions and even thoughts
become depersonalized through awareness. Their impersonal nature is recognized.
There is no longer a self in them. They are just human emotions,
human thoughts. Your entire personal history, which is ultimately no more
than a story, a bundle of thoughts and emotions, becomes of secondary
importance and no longer occupies the forefront of your consciousness. It
no longer forms the basis for your sense of identity. You are the light of
Presence, the awareness that is prior to and deeper than any thoughts and
emotions.”
Excerpted from Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, pages
116-117.
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