Saturday Evening Random

“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these [are] you.”
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“To the ego, the present moment hardly exists.  Only past and future are considered important.  This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional.  It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?”

--Eckhart Tolle