Essence Identity: What Uses What?

The essence of you is [a part of ]the essence of the universe.
-Eckhart Tolle

So we are so much more than this that we can perceive with our senses and describe, explain or even understand with our minds? 

We are minds in bodies; formless in form; invisible in the visible; spirit in matter; timeless in some concept of "time"; changeless in the changing ; eternal in the temporary and we are in this world but not of it?

Our true identity then is the essence beneath every "thing"?

In the short video clip listed below, a question is asked, "How do we use our essence identity to make better choices?"  Eckhart Tolle quickly replies with this truth:  We don't use essence identity; essence identity uses us.

We got it so very mixed up. We ...as this pathetic little me...walk around this planet thinking we are using everything and have a right to. It doesn't work out so well for us so we decide to search and seek for something deeper...for the purpose of using it to make these pathetic little me better.

How can the pathetic self use the Divine Self?  How can illusion use truth? How can bodies use minds? Form use the formless? The visible use the invisible? Matter use spirit? An illusion of  time use the truth of timelessness? The ever changing use that which is incapable of change? The temporary use the eternal?

It can't... can it?

Our essence identity...that which we truly are cannot be used.  It uses this form we are in, our minds, our bodies, and this world we are in to do what it does...shine.  It is always there...always present because it is presence. It just is!  And once we realize presence...it will use this limited form of us  to shine through onto the world.

We are the formless presence beneath form...so the body doesn't run the show.  We, (as our true selves: Essence Identity) are not used by  the body ...presence uses the body.  We are not used by our minds...presence uses the mind. We are not used by this concept of time, or change...presence  uses that.  We are not used by the world...presence creates and uses the world to do what we are here to do...shine.

But the "we" I speak of here is not the little "me" we have come to know through over identification with body, mind and the physical world... as self.  It is not this story we created. It is not a separate little entity trying to find peace and enlightenment in a busy chaotic world. It is beyond all that.  It is beyond body.  It is beyond mind.  It is beyond this world as we perceive it.

And at the same time...it is it.  It flows through and wraps itself  so gracefully, so perfectly around all of it.

We just need to be present.  We do not need to use anything. We just need to fall back into the stillness of our own essence identity and allow ourselves to be used by it.  The little "me"  may never use it.  We can, however,  be vehicles for this amazing light to shine through, while realizing we are that light.

All is well.

Eckhart Tolle (2019) How can we use our essence identity to make better choices? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtkyDZFQvCw