Short transcript excerpt of a dialogue from the YouTube video "The Essence of Identity with Eckhart Tolle." In this excerpt Eckhart Tolle and another speaker discuss how people identify with thoughts, emotions, experiences, possessions, and relationships and then probe deeper by asking who or what is doing the identifying — pointing toward inquiry into the true self beyond temporary identifications.
So when I say you identify with thought, you identify it with emotion. You identify with experiences. You identify with possessions, you identify.
With relationships.
You know what? When I say.
That, who is the you that.
Does all that's identifying? That's the quick question. Who is the.
You that.
Is identifying with those things? So, in other words, you can ask yourself the question.
If I.
Am ultimately.
Not my thoughts.
Or my emotions or my experiences or whatever I identify with, if ultimate, if ultimately that is not who or what.
I am, who or what am I?
If I'm not this person, if that is just a temporary appearance, fine. But if what is the thing that does the identifying?
Oh.
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