Eckhart Tolle Sense The Presence

Sense the presence 1) I was once obsessed in an interest fanatically when I was 15. After a few years, Eckhart Tolle’s writing about ego enlightens me. In the book, Tolle states, “Ego is a conglomeration of recurring thought forms and conditioned mental emotional patterns that are invested with a sense of I, a sense of self.” (54) It is tending to mislead, and to confuse the relation between viewpoints and facts. The selective perception and the distorted interpretation are all produced by the ego and will affect people in their daily life. However, we cannot get rid of ego because it is not wrong, it’s just unconscious. As I read Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth, I realize that awareness means presence, and only presence can dissolve unconsciousness

I used to be a super fan of sneaker collection when I was in high school. What kind of shoes others wore in that day would always be my primary impression and I classified people with my preference of shoes. Conversations with friends were related with my hobby in collecting shoes all the time. I knew what kind of Jordan shoes would release in what specific day and spent most of the time searching information online. “A large part of many people’s lives is consumed by an obsessive preoccupation with things.”(37) When I was bound up the sense of worth with things people possessed, this incorrect idea occupied my mind and made me

The insistence drove me crazy, actually I know how deep I was immersed in chasing my interest of it. I was so far away with just living in the present. However, it really takes a long period of time for me to aware no matter what brand the shoes is and no matter how much it will cost, a pair of shoes is still a pair of shoes. External evaluation criterion will not change the entity of the object. “Thoughts can be at best point to the truth, but it never is the truth”. (70) When I put too much efforts and expectations on the habit, it becomes a burden. More time and energy I spent, less happiness I gained. I was lost on the way chasing the sense of accomplishment to satisfy the ego instead of the sneaker