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makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then you must accept the consequences.
    —ECKHART TOLLE, THE POWER OF NOW
    In his new state of consciousness, Tolle realized he only needed to be himself. His true purpose was to be in the present. According to Tolle, we all can reach this state of consciousness, of being in the now, of pulling body and soul together into one consciousness when we shut down the noise of our thoughts. Then we are able to connect with our heart, the conduit to our true, essential selves. By focusing your awareness on your heart, by listening to the voice of your heart, you get an understanding of who you really are.
    You are more than your name, nationality, profession, or any other label. Even if you were to adopt a different name or change your nationality or profession, you would remain yourself. You’re also more than your personality, whether you’re kind or competitive, optimistic or fatalistic. You’re also more than your physical body. If you are seriously injured, you may change in some ways, but you are essentially the same individual.

Eckhart Tolle

 DEAN SHROCK
    If I could create a new diagnostic code, I would actually call it Forgotten Identity. I think we’ve genuinely forgotten who we really are and the power we have and our real essence.
    Your true identity is your heart, the seat of your soul, the most authentic, most genuine, and most profound core of yourself. Your heart and soul are your essence. Your personality operates in the world of your five senses, but you don’t perceive your soul with those senses. Your soul is beyond the world of labels.
    Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
    —ECKHART TOLLE, A NEW EARTH
    Yet, to live in the world, we modify our behavior to fit all kinds of situations: at home, at work, at school, at the gym. As we do, we may project an image of ourselves, a persona that is at odds with our true selves. This personality can make us afraid to be as we really are, so sometimes we deny our true selves and hide behind a mask.
     DEEPAK CHOPRA
    Every child has played hide-and-seek. And you know when you play hide-and-seek, there is a part of you that doesn’t want to be found out and there is another part of you that wants to be found out. So we lose ourselves and ultimately we find ourselves. That’s the play of life.
    In a way you spend your whole life playing hide-and-seek. On the one hand, you hope not to be found, because you are comfortable with the personality you’ve assumed. On the other hand, you want to be found, because, deep down, your personality chafes against your true self. To resolve this discrepancy, align your personality with your soul.
     MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
    That shift from body identification to spirit identification, that is the meaning of enlightenment. And that is the same thing as saying “going from the perceptions of the mind to the knowledge of the heart.”
    By shifting your attention from your head to your heart, you connect with your true self and develop the courage to be who you really are.
     MARCI SHIMOFF
    When we look at life through the eyes of love and through the eyes of the heart, everything changes. The world outside may or may not change, or may not appear to our liking, but when we change how we’re perceiving it, when we move from our thoughts to the feelings of love, everything in the world around us appears different.
    When we look at the world only through our thoughts, through our minds, it can seem difficult or hostile. We have 60,000 thoughts a day and 80 percent are negative, but when we drop our attention into the heart and we start living more from the heart, life appears different. The world looks different.
     MARCI SHIMOFF
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