Tolle calls your mind a noise machine. He stepped outside his noise machine and ended his debilitating depression by changing the story he told himself was his life.
I like that idea and I think further that if we can separate our conciousnees and call the noise machine our working mind and use it to navigate the world while holding onto a higher conciousness that exists without the me conciousness that drives the noise machine we will be a better integrated being.
