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Want Help Letting Go of Egoic Behaviors? Treat Them Like Cold Symptoms

You have to try this.

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David Gerken
Aug 21, 2025
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My favorite quote from Eckhart Tolle is:

“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

And that is what this piece is about. The indispensability of awareness for spiritual growth.

Awareness of what? Our unconscious behaviors and reactions.

I came up with an analogy a while back that helps a ton on this. It’s about the com…

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