Eckhart Tolle explains the inner voice shaped by past conditioning and cultural influences, what he calls the tourist guide in your head. Learning to ignore this commentator is central to his teaching on presence and freedom from thought patterns.
Most people are stuck with the tourist guide in the head. It convinced continuously of what's going on in your life and evaluates and interprets and defines in words everything that you perceive. And so in whatever way it is defined or interpreted depends on your particular conditioning, the way you were brought up, what you were taught by the surrounding culture, and so on. So the kind of tourist guide you have depends on your past, and so it's really your past talking to you continuously.
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