Eckhart Tolle argues we misuse language when we say "my life" or "your life," as if life were something we own. We don't possess life; we are life itself, a temporary expression of one universal, timeless existence. This shift dissolves the separation between you and life.
It seems so natural, you say, "My life." Everybody says it, and I say it sometimes, and I say sometimes, "Your life," but I don't believe in it. It's just a conventional way of speaking, but most people actually believe in it. They believe that they actually have a life. You cannot have a life because you are life, an expression of the one life, a temporary expression in this form, of the one timeless life. So you don't have a life because then it means there's life and you. But who are you without life?
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