There is a self in every thought. In this episode, Eckhart explains what it means to be

unconscious and he says we all have inner scripts, those old dysfunctional patterns

that are handed down generation

after generation.

He says eventually they crystallize into an identity.

Eckhart explains, until we wake up to this, we remain largely unconscious.

He says we don't have to remain hostage to our hard wiring. We can

resist our thinking and stop mistaking it for the truth.

Eckhart says every human being is like a seed waiting to awaken. The

potential may be buried under layers of ego, but it is still there.

He says we find answers to the secrets of the universe when we look within.

If you are unconscious, which means by the way, it means identify with every thought that goes into your head.

And it's immediately taken for the truth. You're totally with your opinions.

I'm not saying you shouldn't have opinions, everybody has opinions,

but the question is does your opinion become your identity

that's the unconscious state if opinion becomes your identity

This is the thought that is the opinion becomes your identity.

thoughts, the opinion, becomes your identity.

In other words, there is a self in every thought, so to speak,

using slightly Buddhist terminology.

There's a self in every arising thought and so that is the unconscious state and that self, which is considered to be you or the person,

is ultimately a delusion or affection, as the Buddha pointed out, that ultimately that is a kind of fiction.

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