This is a YouTube video titled "Eckhart Tolle on Two Ways of Knowing Yourself" containing a monologue or talk by Eckhart Tolle discussing the concept of self-knowledge, contrasting conceptual understanding with deeper awareness, recorded in December 2024.
Know thyself. Now, here we have the two different kinds of knowing. You can know yourself conceptually, which you do. For example, when you visit a psychoanalyst, the psychoanalyst will analyze your past and he will talk about it, and you'll be encouraged to explore more and more of the things that happened. And it can go on for years. It's interesting, Very interesting. That's knowing yourself, but it's not the way in which the Greek philosopher meant it. That can be helpful, because often it shows you where you are trapped. It shows you what the obstacles are. Can be helpful. But knowing yourself in the deeper sense is the other kind, which is knowing yourself as the aware presence.
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