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Oct 2021
45m 18s

Beyond the Conceptual Self

OPRAH AND ECKHART TOLLE
About this episode
Eckhart talks with a live audience about letting go of our false sense of self. He says when we base our identity on externals: our looks, what we do and where we live - that’s the ego. In that state, we’re either inferior or superior; never equal. True relationships become impossible. But when we’re grounded in essential being, the need to compare disappears and we discover we are infinitely precious.

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