Eckhart Tolle teaches that asking "Who am I?" is not meant to produce a thought. Instead, drop the question into inner silence and wait for the answer to arrive as direct experience of stillness itself, not as words or concepts.
Who or what am I? You ask yourself, let the question drop down into nothingness. Who am I? And then listen, but not listen through auditory organ. Be alert for the answer, to get the answer. Who am I? And the answer is not a thought and it's not a word. 'Who am I?' Stillness comes. I'm saying stillness is not— that's a finger pointing to the moon. 'Who am I?' That's the answer. The answer is the still presence, beingness itself, before it becomes something.
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