The ego loves its problems.

In this podcast, Eckhart says one of the hurdles we must confront regularly is our unconscious thinking.

He says our relentless self-centered thoughts actually feed the ego and keep us mired in a fictitious

sense of self.

He explains the ego loves problems and strengthens its grip by creating suffering for ourselves and others.

Eckhart says if we're not growing spiritually when crises strike they will make us even

more unconscious.

Eckhart explains there is a paradox suffering can actually push us to awaken because when we can't take the pain anymore we finally surrender.

He says most unhappiness is not the result of life's difficulties, it's our reactions to them.

Eckhart says when we have a foot on the right path, misfortune is no longer an obstacle.

Instead, it becomes an opportunity for spiritual growth.

This is your continuous practice. Are you able to, as much as possible to let go of

especially habitual useless self-serving thinking, thinking that only feeds the fictitious self, the ego, the entity that loves, actually loves its problems.

Whether it says, no, I don't love my problems.

Yes, you do because you talk and think about them continuously.

In fact, you create them, through unconscious thinking, you create them.

No, no, I don't. Yes, you do.

This entity then becomes, as first you have glimpses, sometimes accidental.

There may only be a few seconds and then perhaps a gradually the being and the human kind of merge.

And then the two gradually the being and the human kind of merge, the being seeps into the human, and so the human, the

conditioned entity, the human, becomes less and less obnoxious and less and less dysfunctional and less and less

creating completely unnecessary and absurd suffering for yourself and others.

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