Reconnect From Within

During Oprah and Eckhart Tolle’s online class covering chapter 2 of the book A New Earth, the two discussed thought processes.

A caller named Heather from Vancouver Island, Canada by way of skype asked: “When we get free of the ego, where does that energy go?”

Oprah replied, “Good question.”

Eckhart answered: “The ego basically consists of compulsive, conditioned thought processes. So we are not aware of, so we identify so closely with our stream of thinking that we don’t even know that we are thinking. So all of this energy is used up in continuous, to a large extent, useless thinking. Even psychologists have found out (even psychologists who are not that interested in spiritual things), they looked at the nature of human thought and discovered that 98 or 99% of our thoughts are quite useless and repetitive. They are not really needed.” Read the rest of this entry »