Eckhart Tolle describes the gap between thought, where your identity dissolves and only pure awareness remains. The historical self built from memory and thought originates in a timeless being that simply knows "I am." Recognizing this deeper dimension transforms how you live.
In a moment of no thought, like now, all that is left of you is something that's very hard to define or speak about. All that's left is a sense of presence or awareness or beingness. You know that you are, and then you say, 'I am.' There is you, the historical person, and there's the timeless being. It is a mission and purpose of the historical person to connect and become aware of its timeless origin in being and then live in connectedness with that dimension. All that changes substantially when there is a connectedness with a deeper dimension of the deep I.
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