Short excerpt from an Eckhart Tolle YouTube video in which the speaker reflects on the only thing one can know for certain: the existence of the self as consciousness. Tolle references Oprah\'s interview-ending question and argues that even if reality were a dream, the witnessing presence ("I am") remains the one indubitable fact.
What do you know for sure? That used to be Oprah's final question. In an interview, people came up with all kinds of different answers. I don't remember what I answered, though I hope I gave the correct answer, because there's only one correct answer. That's the weird thing. All other things you don't really know for sure, and the only correct answer is I am. This could be a dream. But even if it is a dream, there's something that enables the dream to be the light of consciousness in which the dream happen, happens. This is you. You are that. And therefore, what do you know for sure? I know that I am.
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