Our “essence” is our deepest self, the real/true aspect of who we are, Nicoll and Tolle convey.
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Essence remains untouched or unspoiled by what happens externally, they suggest.
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People identify more with their personality/psychological form and neglect essence, they say.
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What we consider our personality or refer to as “I” is not who we really are, they explain.
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Our personality, shaped by exterior customs or conditioning, isn’t really us, the authors say.
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People typically mistake their personality for who they really are, Nicoll and Tolle suggest.
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Nicoll and Tolle both characterise the personality as time-limited.
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They describe our “essence” as eternal/timeless and “indestructible.”
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Our essence or true nature continues after death, the authors say, but the personality perishes.
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Essence isn’t bound to the body; it departs it at death and continues on, they suggest.
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Unlike the personality, one’s essence or true nature cannot be lost or stripped away, they say.
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Psychologically we’re typically trapped or imprisoned in the personality with all its fixed ways and prejudices, the authors convey.
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Both describe “your personality” as a “prison” as Gurdjieff did (although, unlike Nicoll, Tolle never directly mentions Gurdjieff or the Fourth Way in his writing).
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In a higher state of consciousness we feel something beyond time and the personality, Nicoll and Tolle convey.
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This state is found by being more conscious in the now, the authors insist. One momentarily transcends time and the personality and experiences their true self, which is eternal or timeless.
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It’s in the now, the state of being conscious in the present, where our real self is found, they maintain.
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The cross can represent the meeting of a “vertical” and a “horizontal” dimension, Nicoll and Tolle both say. Tolle acknowledges others have used this interpretation before, but gives no names.
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The vertical, the authors suggest, exists beyond the horizontal line of the cross depicting time. It’s only encountered in the present moment or now.
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The vertical pertains to our state of being, they convey, while the horizontal pertains to the events of our life in time.
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We only feel or enter the vertical by being conscious in the now, Nicoll and Tolle convey.
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The present moment is the entry point for the vertical dimension that’s beyond time, the authors tell us.
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We can consciously perceive eternity/the vertical dimension coming into the horizontal flow of time, we are told.
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We must consciously feel/focus on the now to experience the vertical dimension of eternity, they suggest.
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Our false self comes about through identifying with the mind or imagination, and gives us a false feeling/sense of who we are, Nicoll and Tolle convey.
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