Eckhart Tolle

You shouldn't have done that.

So...

This is the most important thing in a person's life, and this is why we're here, is to experience this shift in consciousness so that increasingly, in glimpses at first, but then increasingly, your sense of who you are is the space of awareness, the presence.

Does that mean there's two of us?

one could say that there is on the one hand i sometimes call it on the one hand you have your form identity your form is the most of physical body which is the first thing people identify with but really it's not the physical body it's a mental image of my body which may be happy about or

Either the body can be a source of pride, or it can be a source of shame, or anything in between.

And so people identify with my body.

That's the first form of identification.

And the next is the psychological form of me, all the things that I identify with in my past.

The past makes up who I think I am, all the past conditioning, starting in childhood.

The culture in which you grow up, the family in which you grow up, all those things become part of your identity.

So you have form, I call it form identity, or the one that, and everybody obviously has one, no matter how conscious you are, you continue to have a physical body until you don't.

And you have a form identity, a psychological form.

But there is a deeper identity also that, and this is spiritual awakening, that is, I call it essence identity, your essence.

And your essence is, if we want to put a, we use the term awareness and we use the term presence.

But another term we can use, what that really is, is consciousness.

The essence of who you are is consciousness, the light of consciousness itself.

And this is something to be experienced.

You cannot understand conceptually what it is that I'm talking about unless you experience in this moment, perhaps,

well, it's the only moment there is, unless you experience what that means, that you are, in essence, you are consciousness, the space or the light of consciousness.