Excerpt from a YouTube video by Eckhart Tolle in which he describes how people carry a heavy, increasingly rigid personality that identifies with its thoughts. He argues that such people believe their opinions are absolute truth, resist argument, and that topics like politics tend to trigger this dysfunction.
Many people are carrying this heavy burden of this personality which they have been carrying for years. Sometimes the older they get, the more rigid it becomes. They know everything, whatever you say. They have an opinion about it and they don't know it's an opinion. They think it's the truth. You can't argue with them. It's impossible, completely pointless. They are so identified, but they believe in every thought that comes into their head. That's how it is, let me tell you. You just talk to people about politics. That. That tends to stimulate that kind of dysfunction.
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