A short excerpt from a YouTube video by Eckhart Tolle explaining a spiritual metaphor: the personal self is like a ripple on the ocean while Being is the ocean itself. The ripple (body, conditioned mind) is not separate from the ocean but is the ocean; awakening is realizing this essence identity, which manifests as stillness.
You as a person are like a ripple on the surface of the ocean. And the being is the ocean. But, of course, the ripple on the surface of the ocean is not separate from the ocean. It is the ocean. The ripple is your essence identity. It's the body and the mental emotional entity, the conditioned mind. And if you've never realized your essence identity, then you're still unconscious. So the awakening is the awakening to your essence identity. And it comes with stillness.
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