“The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.” - Eckhart Tolle. Probably my favorite quote of all time. If you enjoyed this video and want to help create more, please consider supporting After Skool on Patreon. Thank you! www.patreon.com/AfterSkool

“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you might think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted. Get ready to bloom.”🌱

*"Everything in life is easier when you don't concern yourself with what other people are doing."* The chances of you seeing this comment is pretty low, but if you did, *I hope you have an amazing day.* 🖤

"The Primary Cause Of Unhappiness Is Never The Situation But Your Thoughts About It." - Eckhart Tolle

This channel has taught me more practical information in the last year than 12 years of general public education ever did.

“When someone is rude, keep a smile on your face. When you keep your joy, you take away their power.” 🙏🏽

"Realize Deeply That The Present Moment Is All You Ever Have." - Eckhart Tolle

Wake up to your own duality and you will remove this duality and discover peace. Love and compassion to all of you ❤

"You are not a drop in the ocean; you are the entire ocean in a drop." - Rumi

We are the universe, experiencing itself.

“How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego.” 😬✌🏽

Notice how the world is increasingly narcisstic and mask greed with attractive words like ambition, achievement, success, motivation, etc.? The hedonistic wheel keeps going faster and faster as we're programmed to believe we are not enough.

That's what enlightenment is "You're not a person, you're a moment".

Honestly, I want to personally thank you and everyone who participated in the making of this channel. Ever since I began watching your videos my worldview has been flipped upsidedown in the best possible way. I am normally so anxious and frustrated and foggy-minded but when I watch your videos it is like things become a little clearer. Nothing would make me happier than to learn more from you (and about myself). Please continue to make videos.

About 20 years ago I dropped like 4-5 hits of acid and shed my ego. It was both beautiful and terrifying at once . I realized that I truly am my own worst enemy . It comes back slowly but that's because you do actually need your ego. But be careful not to feed the ego. Just make sure that you're aware of your own ego.

The Buddha sometimes described young people who frequently watched their reflections in ponds and rivers as "intoxicated with youth"

Authenticity is the way to see beyond the duality of the self 🙏

I recently experienced a “ego death” on shrooms. The first two days were brutal but so far it’s been worth it. I died so this version of me can live. It’s been a amazing journey so far.

I think it’s fruitless to assess your self worth by the material things you’ve acquired. You don’t own things, the things own you.

I clicked on this video thinking it was about narcissistic individuals but it actually ended up blowing my mind

This is like 98% of the people on social media. "Look at me, I travel the world, look at my expensive material possessions, and glamorous lifestyle that you all don't have, ect."😆 It's the shallow and child like mentality of the kid with the most toys "wins". Although, a lot of them like to put up a facade, and like to portray themselves in such a way that they have it all to just impress people.😉

"The kingdom of heaven is within you." Wow.

At 3:20 this explains how a mid-life crisis occurs. Most working adults had to try to keep food on the table and a roof over thier families head. Once everyone is taken care of and survival is not an issue, the contemplation about what is life, begins.

Your ego is how you feel about yourself, you can think that you are worthless and still have a ego.

'A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose' literally changed my life, trying to condense it into a 13 minute speech just doesn't do it justice. Even if you didn't enjoy or understand this video, I highly recommend reading or listening to that book. All of the concepts mentioned here and more are explored deeply and at a much more relaxed pace, making it easy to look at your experience of life in a totally different way. after listening to it I ended up buying 5 copies of the book to give to my friends and family lol! I can't even start to explain how impactful Tolle has and will continue to be for our planet.

The guy sighing in the back ground is me realizing I’m trapped by my ego in an endless miserable cycle

You know it's a good day when After Skool uploads

Literally exactly what I was looking for.... doing the shadow work to fully accept myself

Did anyone else feel the utmost sense of peace gush like a fountain within your very soul? Thank you for this video it brought me serenity.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

“Ego...a Mental construct that you mistake from who you are...”

I think part of the identity process hinges on the dichotomy of our reality. As in the scenario with everyone having the same Rolls Royce, you need something contrary to what you are currently experiencing as "self" to compare it to. It is the key to experience. Every coin has two sides. If there is an "up" there must be a "down". They define each other just like "left and right", "hot and cold", "light and dark" and anything else we could possibly experience. So the ego is always forced to choose what our experience means to us. It is easy to get lost in our experiences as if we have no control but when we step back and "think about the thinker" and remain aware of the process that is taking place, we can gain great understanding and eliminate much of the suffering in our lives.

"My ego ain't my amigo any more". Terry Allen

We are all one. Ego is just a “subjective” awareness that every person has.

When I was standing by the ocean..... I felt so close to God. The sky and the ocean touching, looked joined.

Islam changed my life! I now have more clarity, confidence, control over my emotions and actions, and an overall surplus of energy JUST by doing what Allah has told us to do, and by staying away from what He told us to stay away from. Alhamdulillah for being Muslim, and Alhamdulillah for Islam. Barakullah dear brothers and sisters. Assalumu alaykum.Read, study, and learn The Noble Quran.

"The cosmos is within. We are made of starstuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself." Carl Sagan

When I was in 6th grade, I had an english assignment to write the thoughts of a character in a book. I was perplexed because the thoughts in my head weren't words. When I put myself in the characters position, I felt and I planned actions, not a word in my mind. The teacher and my parents gave me a hard time and that is when the negitivive narrative in my head started. Wasn't until I was about 24 that I realized I am not my thoughts and I am not my emotions. I had narcissism but instead of a positive image of myself I saw only flaws. I wish there was a word for that.

Maybe I’m just getting softer as I approach my 40s, but these videos always manage to bring a tear or two and touch a bittersweet place in my soul that reminds me of who and what I really am.

What a cute and accurate caricature of Eckart Tolle

So the saying, "It's all in your head" is quite accurate.

The ego is FAKE superiority. Thats super important. I think it’s more that you judge others and yourself and fall into false patterns of thinking-I always say that you should not make others into you, nor you into others. That’s ego in a nutshell. Posessions can define you authentically too-it’s the inauthentic that’s harmful because it gets in the way of the real you. Your real worth and soul. Anyway this was stimulating and I loved this so much! We just need to be clear. The definition of “superior” completely changes when you get beyond ego. It doesn’t cease to exist. Some people are better at some things than others, for example. Are you superior for you, or for others? That’s a very important question to figure out. Also, why is a bee hive so amazingly beautiful and intelligent? 🤷‍♀️👍🏻👁️❤️‍🔥

Be patient, my friend. The moment is so so very enlightening, peaceful, and complete. Stay, my friend, here with us all.

"I am who I am. Be still and know that I am God."

Ignore the negativity and the doubts people have on you. *Keep moving forward.* *I am cheering for your success.* ✋

This is why I really love to go outside after being "awake", or at least how I see it, bec it would be a thrill finding another awake person.

I am not what happend to me, i am what i choose to become - Carl ljung

Honestly, one of the best pieces of advice I have ever stumbled upon is to kill your ego. & Growing up truly means to be authentically who you are, down to the core...and you can't do this with an ego. Still very much learning this lesson everyday myself.

This is so great. A perfect explanation on the human condition, which is getting harder to be authentic in a modern world. Narcissism is so destructive on the hosts life. So sad so many create their own pain and suffering due to the fact they can not be their true selves. I'd rather expose me as who I truly am than live a cowardly sick life

Just watched this in the right time

I love these illustrations with each video.

This should be a subject focussed on in school since it is now a requirement of life to use computers and phones. People are literally losing their minds and we need to get back to basic while still embracing tech.

I had an horrible egodeath experience on Acid when I was so dump to smoke weed on the peak. It was shocking but somehow I needed to get it - because I was very depressed at that time and thought a lot about suicide. A lot of really weird shit happenend on it but in the end I‘ve got the message. I was with my 3 friends and suddenly it kicked in and I traveled through the universe in light speed. I came to a place where my „real friends“ (some alienlike persons but with the same character as my friends on earth) were talking to me that „I‘ve now finally understood what life really is. Finally! Also him woke up.“ They looked at me as if I‘ve been the only fool that didn’t get it the whole time: That everything down here is just a funny little game but „real life“ is somewhere outside of that. And therefore you can create everything here and everything you can imagine is possible here. After that I couldn’t control myself anymore and every 5min I was falling unconscious to travel through the space again. And it didn’t feel good. Later on when they brought me to bed I felt like I’m now trapped in a time loop because nothing changed anymore for hours that felt like days. I was feeling a lot of pain from all that struggle and the believe that this loop might go for ever on and I‘ve really fucked up. The pain was increasing from loop to loop and finally I got the message that the only way to get rid of *the pain* is to „let it go“. I was fighting with that idea because letting „it“ go meant the rest of life that was still in me. Finally after hours of pain I did it because there was no other way out of it. So i let it go and I felt like „Ok that’s it. I‘m dead. Doesn’t feel that bad, but it’s also sad that I didn’t lived my more on earth. But anyways I‘m already really excited in which body I will be reborn now. I hope it’s not a bad one!“ Long Story short: I woke up in my own body again. In the real world. First I was shocked because I really believed that it was finally over. After that I felt so happy to be back again in my body and in my life. I appreciate the gifts that I got for living my life now way more than before. In the end that was one lesson of many to cure my depression.

This message needs to be in every grade 5 class. Kids are growing up to be self obsessed with the idiotic identity politics they're getting now

You are not the drop in the ocean; You are the entire ocean in a drop!

*“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”* ―Dale Carnegie Have a Nice Day! 🖤

You are not the thoughts that go through your mind. That's deep.

Thank you!

Living in a material world.

Love the ripple analogy....(& of course Russell's laughter & breathing techniques throughout ) !!

Beautiful!!! The ego is a mechanism that serves a purpose, and that is, a 3 D conciusness that allows you to interact, to engage, to function in the material world. Otherwise , you'd be there standing around, staring at everything like a ghost, which is not bad, but one needs the ego to engage in life.

I picked up 4 big bags of trash yesterday... ... I feel so much better :D The ego can serve us all very well... unless we become the servants of our own ego!

Such an important topic and it's not discused in schol. I would almost argue that this topic is more important than any other.

Read all of his books and sometimes watch his channel. You cannot help but drop into “that state” when you listen to him. 🕉

i love the animation of him so much 😭😭😭

it is so hard to let go...but once i do i'm never looking back.

“Because ultimately, it’s only a mental image you mistake for who you are.”

The message of this brought me to tears at the very end 😭 well done ❤️❤️❤️

Wow, what a brilliant man. I can attest and relate to all of this so well. I've been recovering from a TBI, & I've really had to practice all of this, to let go of the 'self' so I can heal, and be present to work towards a new life. Trauma is so strange, and much of it is attached to the idea of the self, but some of it gets trapped in the body. They say the brain stores memory, the body stores emotion. While you can disconnect from both in meditation, it is important to make both those parts as healthy and strong as possible because they effect your experience of life in a body no matter how 'mindful' or zen you are. I've done cognitive therapy, vision therapy, mental therapy, etc, and while it's all been important, nothing has helped and taught me like my journey of meditation and yoga has. Enjoy

Pride is the death of the self. It gives rise to the great enemy. The ego. The destroyer of worlds.

The Ego "seeks" superiority, the "self" authenticity

Ego is not necessarily a bad thing. it allows u to stand behind the things u really believe in. it is all about finding the balance. being too egoistical can make u ignorant, but not having ego can let others just drive over you.

I love Eckhart Tolle, and this person is an amazing artist!

The power of now is a great book by Echart tolle

This illustration is fire!!!!! 🔥 thank you

HUGE fan of Eckhart Tolle and his teachings. Another fantastic video with some really lovely drawings to compliment the beautiful words. Keep up the good work (and I assume plenty of time and effort). Peace.

Great content! I strongly recommend the books of Tolle: Power of Now and A New Earth

“You are not the thoughts that go through your mind “ Bars

Thanks for visualizing these great Speeches!

This is amazing. I stepped out of my ego consciously for the first time after watching this video not too long ago. I keep rewatching it. Thank you for this content. I really appreciate it.

Ego: loser, whack, nothing, bad guy Soul: Learner, gain, growing, transformation

We are one with the universe

TEILEN ❗ TEILEN ❗ TEILEN ❗ DANKE 💞 💞 💞

Thank you for this video. I had been depressed and angry for a while. To the point where I was starting fights with people that would even look at me on the street or cut me off driving. So I decided to practice the dissolving of my ego. It’s difficult because I still have those ego thoughts and I have to consciously stop those thoughts. I have found since my happiness and empathy has increased significantly. I have quit nearly all social media and are trying to focus on bettering myself through helping others. I just wanted to say it has really helped me a lot. I feel so much more at peace and connected to the universe now. I still have selfish thoughts but they slowly decreasing each week and I am getting better at understanding them and controlling them. I highly recommend anyone practice it in their daily lives.

Thinking vs being conscious and aware... this struck me very strongly.

thank you to Eckhart Tolle and thank you to After Skool

beautiful video picture wise and Eckhard speaking.

I always enjoy listening to Eckhart, love this video

We try desperately to know who we are. But we can't know who we are. that unknowing is quite uncomfortable and usually rejected as worthless, and useless.

I feel social media just makes the Ego much greater

It is not about what happens to you but how you interpret and respond to it.

I feel music taste can also be compared to having an ego. For example you discover this awesome unknown band and you love their music and it is yours to recommend and play to others until it becomes mainstream and everyone plays it now to the extent that you even start disliking the music and you find new music. I mean a lot of people pretend not to like another's music "taste" and this is also due to ego I would say.

I just love your work. I'm just rereading 'a new earth' and your visualizations are a perfect extra tool to grasp the mental concepts of tolle. Thank you ❤️

It is not the situation but your reaction on the situation.

Thank you so much.

Dr. Tolle can instruct us very well. In my opinion it would be great if you also upload Sadhguru's talks. They can help us not to get lost in our own made up conclusions and thoughts!

We all love Eckhart!

Beautiful! Beautiful Concepts, Beautiful Visual Art! Thanks

If your reading my comment God bless you and you will live a long happy life with your family and your going to be helping others

I REALLY ADMIRE YOUR VIDEO /... LOVE FROM INDIA