You are the light of the world. In this episode, Eckhart encourages listeners to release their

thinking so they can become aware of what he calls their being. He says, most of us have a

mistaken sense of identity based on what we think about ourselves. He explains, however,

that's not who he really are. Eckhart goes on to quote Jesus who said,

you are the light of the world.

Eckhart believes what Jesus is saying is,

you are the light of consciousness,

because that is our true identity

and the source of our deepest essence.

The essence of our gathering here and the essence of all spirituality is to discover

in yourself the possibility of stepping out of thought, and initially for brief moments.

And that is an amazing thing. Before your identity was derived from the movement of thought.

Your identity was derived from the narrative, the story of me,

my life was your identity, what you called my life.

And now you become aware when there's a moment of no thought,

what is it that who or what are you,

and I'm not just talking about it now.

As I talk, let's do it.

We're not doing it, it's the wrong word, but the language is very limited.

There's no doing, we're becoming a way of being, that's really what it is.

So you don't do anything to become a way of being.

So there's no thought in this moment.

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