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Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

Eckhart Tolle
Ego, Gains, Feminine
Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.101, Penguin

To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wonderous dream arises.

Eckhart Tolle
Dream, Drama, Ego
Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.159, Penguin

I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force.

Eckhart Tolle
Karma, Moving, Ego

So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.

Eckhart Tolle
Ego, Cases, Stuck
Source: rayhemachandra.com

When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies.

Eckhart Tolle
Pain, Self, Ego
Source: www.meditationblog.com

Some groups and individuals still are immersed totally in the egoic consciousness. Others already are free or in the process of stepping out of ego. The arising of the new consciousness already has started for many people. They are not yet recognizable as groups, but they are here and there.

Eckhart Tolle
People, Ego, Groups
Source: rayhemachandra.com

Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

Eckhart Tolle
Ego, Unawareness, New Earth
Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.51, Penguin

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

Eckhart Tolle
Ego, Want, Satisfaction
Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.41, Penguin

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Eckhart Tolle
Insecure, Ego, Defense
Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.28, New World Library

With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if nothing changes the ego will use those things - as it already has been doing - and will amplify the technology that we now have. The scientific advances, to a large extent, will be used in the service of the ego, and they will become more and more destructive.

Eckhart Tolle
Technology, Ego, Use
Source: rayhemachandra.com

As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.

Eckhart Tolle
Children, Names, Ego
Source: rayhemachandra.com

If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group.

Eckhart Tolle
Lying, Ego, Identity
Source: rayhemachandra.com

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Eckhart Tolle
Memories, Achievement, Ego
"Sunday Profile: Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Dan Harris, abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2009.

I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego. Then I have to switch on the TV to realize, "Oh, no, it is not happening to everybody yet." But it is happening.

Eckhart Tolle
Views, People, Ego
Source: rayhemachandra.com

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