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You can develop another tier of conscious which actually controls the conscious .... so therefore you can control your thoughts, and thus your actions.
this is a person in control of his/her Ego.
If someone tells you you are annoying and fat ... you can either let your Ego decide what emotion (and therefore reaction) it draws from it, or you can let your higher-self decide for itself.
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Tolle basically says this. The way he puts it is that we don't "identify" with the thoughts of the ego. The way I am understanding it so far, is not so much that we control the thoughts, but that we don't let them control us. We learn how to turn them off and just be aware. Like when you see something awesome and beautiful for the first time, say the grand canyon. You just are speechless ( and pretty much thoughtless ). Just pure awareness.
Or if you were racing down hill on skiis at 70mph, there isn't much room for thoughts. Just pure presence. At those times it's easy. But to be able to do that in normal everyday circumstance is more difficult for us, because we've learned to identify with thought, and have let thought run rampant.
I agree with others, Tolle borrowed ( or says the same thing ) as buddhism, and also I see lots of Taoism in his message. But he says it a different way. His books really provide insight I've never been able to get from reading about buddhism or taoism, or anything for that matter. I am really thankful for his books.