Eckhart Tolle

Tape 5 

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And 'I', it's a thought, or it could be an external thing but a thought, it attaches itself to it becomes...it adds to the sense of the sense of identity of me.  Even a simple thing like a car, whatever it may be.  A child can give you your identity, the relationship husband and wife can give you an identity.  Form identity.  Me the wife. Me the parent.  Me the provider.  Me the this, that.

September

Time is in the mind.  Space is in the mind.  The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking.  In reality all is here and now and all is one.  Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

September 1st

Being

What you truly are under all the thoughts of what you are is being.  "Being" is a word similar to awareness in that it points to the felt sense of "I AMness" prior to the "I" thought.  If you cannot sense that being now, there is a story of a separate self obscuring it.  Some pointers direct you to question the story until it is seen through.  You can also just stay with the sense of being under the story.  Relax as the natural and effortless being that you are.  This felt sense of being is always and already here, no matter what is happening.

Thought may tell the story, "I'm driving to work right now."  Being, however, is not driving to work.  It is simply being.  Thought may tell the story, "I wish my spouse would do what I ask him to do."  Being is not in that story.  It is just being.  Thought may tell the story, "I'm seeking enlightenment."  Being is not seeking enlightenment.  Being just is.

In realizing being, you know exactly what you are.  Stories may continue to arise.  They may quiet down.  Regardless of whatever stories may or may not be arising, there is always being.  There is always this "I AMness" before, during, and after the stories "I am this" or "I need that" arise.  Being is timeless.  This timeless being manifests as time and thought, but is ultimately free of its manifestations.

Michael Brown

From PART V: 2. 

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Our facilitator also knows these presences must, like us, eat to stay alive, and that the nutrition feeding and strengthening them while they reside within our energy field is the emotional energy manufactured through our outer dramatizations of fear, anger, and grief. Our negative emotional charge, and our relationship with it, is therefore a banquet table, an array of delicious delights, serving to please the appetite of any possessive parasitic presence in our energy field. For this reason, an authentic facilitator does not entertain drama. The crux of their task is to cut this food source by teaching us how to neutralize our negative emotional charge.

Chapter 85

'I am': The Foundation of all Experience

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Q: Does it not depend on the way you look at it? The mind says there is a difference. The heart says there is none.

M: Of course there is no difference. The real sees the real in the unreal. It is the mind that creates the unreal and it is the mind that sees the false as false.