Eckhart Tolle

We all inherit this kind of dysfunction, a mental.

Of course, another word for that is the ego.

It is the human ego ego.

Sometimes when people use the term ego,

They interpret it in different ways than they see the egos that used by Freud, the Freudian ego and other egos.

But when I use the term ego or when it's used in a spiritual context, ego

simply means complete identification with your mind, with the thinking, the mental, emotional makeup of you.

That's ego is complete identification with that.

And so that's so deeply ingrained.

Every human being inherits that kind of dysfunction.

And so it's so hard to let go because it's so deeply ingrained in the conditioning of your mind.

And so some people need an enormous amount of suffering.

And even with that, some people don't awaken even then.

They'd be unhappy until they die.

Or they die even at an early age because the body can't stand the unhappiness anymore.

It isn't functioning properly anymore because their mental state interferes with the otherwise harmonious functioning of the body.

So they make themselves ill through stress.

Right.

So we are faced with, it's an enormous

It's also a very challenging and wonderful thing to realize that your purpose, beyond any purpose that you might have on a personal level, which also has a function, but your deeper purpose is to