Eckhart Tolle distinguishes between thinking as a tool and thinking that hijacks your sense of self. When your mind becomes your identity, it runs on autopilot and makes you feel possessed by your own thoughts. The solution is awareness: step back from the ego and use thinking deliberately instead of letting it use you.
The mind-made sense of self is a terrible curse, and that is something that we need to transcend so that we can actually use thinking in a powerful, focused, constructive way and actually create and manifest things through thinking. Thinking is an amazing tool. Where thinking becomes destructive is when it assumes your identity, then when you do not think, but thinking happens to you. So in other words, I am actually possessed by my own mind.
Why alcohol feels like relief, and what it is really giving you | Eckhart Tolle
