You Can Let Go Without Forgetting | Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle mentions something about himself that he does not often dwell on. His childhood was painful. He still remembers it. And when those memories arrive now, they carry no emotional charge at all. He knows it happened to him, and yet it feels almost as though it happened to somebody else. That is what he means by being free of the past, and it is not what most people assume. It does not involve forgetting anything, or deciding that what happened was acceptable. The bad things are real. The world contains a great deal of harm, because it contains a great many unconscious people, and they spread their suffering to others. You can acknowledge all of it. The question he raises is a different one. Do you draw your sense of who you are from those events? Because if your identity rests on certain memories and the emotions attached to them, then the past keeps supplying you with a self, and it is usually an unhappy one. There is another place to draw from. He calls it the deep I, as distinct from the surface self assembled out of your history. You cannot reach it by thinking, because thinking is how the conceptual mind works and this is not a concept. There is a second kind of knowing, one that does not need to figure anything out. You can feel it now, in the aliveness in your hands and feet, in the vast intelligence that runs every function of your body without consulting you. There is something in you far greater than your mind. And it was never harmed by anything that happened. Eckhart goes much further into this in the full session. Join Eckhart Tolle Now to watch. 👇 Sign up for a free trial: https://bit.ly/etnow-freetrial ✨🌟Take Your Practice Deeper with Eckhart Tolle Now🌟✨ You’ve already started your journey with Eckhart Tolle’s teachings on YouTube—now it’s time to take that journey even deeper. We’re excited to offer you an exclusive year-long discount to join Eckhart Tolle Now for just $139—that’s only $11 per month for a full year of transformative t