Deepening presence.

In this podcast, Eckhart answers questions from a live audience on a wide range of topics like,

what's the function of the ego?

How does it feel to be enlightened?

And what's the best remedy for loneliness and the pain body?

Eckhart responds with his renowned wisdom.

He says, the best motivation for liberation

is the desire to stop suffering.

All of life's events can lead to that.

My question is around the ego and is there any, we all have one.

And that's, I have to believe that the world comes from perfection.

And so is there a positive role?

Because we do a lot of talking about making it go away.

Yes. Thank you. Good question.

The ego has been absolutely a necessary part

of the evolution of human consciousness.

Also we need to be aware before I talk more about that.

When we talk of ego, not to confuse ego

with what I call form identity.

Everybody has a form identity,

which means you have a physical form

and you have a psychological form, the person,

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