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Old 06-17-2008, 11:47 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by pianoperformer View Post
Tolle's not saying, I don't think, that we are all the same as far as personality is concerned. That's just the outside shell, and to understand his teachings, that really has to be discarded. He said that essentially, on the level of who we truly are, there is no division between us, as it is all part of that "being" he talks about. That doesn't mean that our individual avatars, so to speak, do not express that being-ness in different ways, in order to experience this world.
I really have a problem with this 'level of who we really are' and 'there is no division'. In fact, is not everything you quote here of Tolle just a theory born from his inner experiences

Surely, Tolle's inner experiences are only part of what it means to be human?
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