Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who they are. You say: He lost his life or my life, as if life were something that you can possess or lose. The truth is: you don't have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. Can you sense deep within that you already know that? Can you sense that you already are That? β¨ Eckhart Tolle (2010). Stillness Speaks, p.53, New World Library
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