Eckhart Tolle

Between two thoughts, for example, sometimes there's a thought that comes to an end, another thought hasn't arisen yet, you have a gap of five seconds or ten seconds, and...

This is an experiential thing.

To realize yourself as consciousness implies that first, for very brief instances, the mind becomes still.

It subsides.

But you are still there.

So when you are not, let's say, let's assume that you let go of any memory of your past because you don't need it right now.

You don't remember your past at all or your name or anything.

and you're not thinking about future.

In fact, you're not thinking at all, but you are aware.

You're aware of your sense perceptions, but you're not interpreting sense perceptions.

You're allowing sense perceptions to be.

Now, who or what are you when you're not telling yourself who or what you are?

Who or what are you without the story?

And some people are afraid of that.

They're so attached to the story, they can't let go.

But it's a wonderful practice for some people.

They only let go when the story that they call their life becomes so painful that they can't stand it anymore.

And then sometimes they experience a breakthrough.

Well, it's we all inherit.

It goes back thousands of years in a collective consciousness or unconscious humanity.