“I cannot live with myself any longer.” This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. “Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’ that ‘I’ cannot live with.”

—  Eckhart Tolle , book The Power of Now

“Maybe,” I thought, “only one of them is real.”
The Power of Now (1997)

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