If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mi…

Eckhart Tolle
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If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down. ✨ Eckhart Tolle (2010). The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, p.44, New World Library
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