What Doesn't Matter?

 You are the presence beyond the thinking mind without which there would be no thinking. 

Eckhart Tolle

What Doesn't Matter?

Sometimes, it is very easy to lose our selves in ego.  We want to appear to be a certain way in the world, to avoid the feared inferiority we so often feel in comparison to one another and that, in turn, often leads  us to create an image of superiority.  We see this as "confidence" and "esteem"...when it is nothing more that ego blushing and rushing. And this image has nothing to do with who we really are.  

We know we have gone beyond ego's grip on us when we are the same with everyone, when we don't don one persona for one person, and a different one for another person. We also know we have transcended this when external things lose their ability to make us "happy" or "unhappy".When we know at the deepest level that all "this [the external happenings, situations, appearances of self and other] doesn't really matter.

What matters? 

Self

Which is?

Something deeper,  much bigger and more important than your external  image or life situation, whatever it may be. Self is that still, spacious, presence that is not dependent on what is happening around you  or what you or others think about your idea of "me". It just is.

All is well in my world!

Eckhart Tolle (Nov, 2020) The Source of True Power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSElLZN8-qI

Eckhart Tolle (July 2020) Guided Meditation: The Arising of Your Natural State. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eQ6MKxrIjs