Eckhart Tolle: Essential Teachings A New Earth: Ego: The Current State of Humanity (Chapter 2)
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Mar 11, 2019 
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Use Breath to Enter Presence
- Focus attention on your breath to shift awareness from thinking to presence.
- This anchors you in the present moment, reducing ego-driven thought.
Ego as Phantom Self-Image
- The ego forms a false self based on mental concepts and identification with memories.
- This self-image is like Narcissus falling in love with his reflection, a phantom created by the mind.
No One Has Perfect Past
- Eckhart describes how no personal history is fully happy and filled with problems.
- This common experience underscores that our identity in the story is not our true self.