Eckhart Tolle explains how we mistake our thoughts for ourselves, a pull so strong it feels like gravity. The shift: being present enough to think without identifying with your thoughts. "This is what I think, but that's not what I am."
In the discussion. The tendency to be drawn into mind identification is huge and it has. There's a gravitational pull that immediately exerts itself and it draws you into mind completely. But if you are present enough, then you can. You're able to discuss something, whatever it may be, without self identification. I mentioned it briefly before without self identification with your opinion. So here's the this is what I think, but that's not what I am.
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