Eckhart Tolle asks: if you're not your thoughts, emotions, or roles, who is doing the observing? He suggests investigating the awareness behind all experience points toward a self beyond the ego.
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 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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