Eckhart Tolle warns against identifying with the continuous incarnation of consciousness into thought forms and emotional forms. To take any of those forms as who you are is, he says, the fundamental mistake.
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Don't identify with the continuous incarnation Incarnation means taking form. The continuous incarnations of one thought forms of consciousness into one thought form and emotional form after another. And if you identify with it, that's who or what you think you are. There's nothing beyond that.