Eckhart Tolle describes two layers of human existence: the conditioned personality shaped by experience, and an unconditioned dimension he calls being or pure consciousness that most people never access. You can't recognize it in others until you find it in yourself.
you're not just a human, you are a human being. But the being is the unconditioned dimension, the unconditioned consciousness that most humans are unaware of. It's like almost the most important dimension of who they are is not— they don't, don't, haven't never heard about it, have I have no access to it seemingly. In every human, in yourself, there's a human level which has its forms of conditioning. It has its characteristics of the personality, its weird kinds of stuff. But behind it is the being. Now, before you're able to sense the being of the other human, you have to sense it in yourself.
Why alcohol feels like relief, and what it is really giving you | Eckhart Tolle
