Two at All Times
There are two of us at all times. Even now, in this very moment, there are two of you living your life. Or it could be said, that Life is living you as two dimensions …
There is the You which is pure formless awareness, and, there is the you that you think you are and all of its stories and history and hopes and dreams. Another way of saying this is that you are consciousness itself AND you are an ego personality that exists in and because of your thoughts.
If we look at these two side-by-side, we get an even clearer picture:
Pure Consciousness ~ Ego Personality
Formless awareness ~ Thought forms
Known through presence ~ Known through thoughts
Present-moment being ~ Past and future idealization
Lives here and now ~ Lives elswhere, in the past and future
Body-centered ~ Thought-centered
Identity-less; free from all attachments and identifications ~ Identified with personal story, status, roles, nationality, jobs, things, etc
Transcendent ~ Temporal
Inner sense of aliveness ~ Mental thought processes
Infinite depth ~ Outer surface
The Observer ~ The supposed doer
Peaceful serenity, quiet equanimity ~ Drama, reactivity, suffering
At one with all that is, harmoniously ~ Separate from others; often in conflict
By dis-identifying with the ego, we naturally gain access to the experience of our true nature, the present-moment awareness that we know by being here, now.
~ by Eckhart Tolle. See >>>video clip
