This is a YouTube video titled "Are You Only Thinking About Yourself? with Eckhart Tolle" containing a spoken segment where a speaker discusses the common human experience of being preoccupied with self-related thoughts and identity issues. The content appears to be a reflective or philosophical talk likely related to Eckhart Tolle's teachings on consciousness and self-awareness, recorded in 2025.
Most people's mind activity is to a large extent occupied by thinking about themselves and trying to solve the problem of me, trying to solve me and my problems. The strange thing is, you solve one and another one pops up behind you, problem after another. So you have to think even harder about yourself, especially in the middle of the night. And so your sense of identity becomes a problematic, one very common phenomenon for most people, to the extent even that they regard themselves as a problem to be solved. I am a problem that requires a solution, and that's a heavy identity.
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