I took this idea from Echart Tolle's autobiographical account of his experience of going from deep depression and suicidal thoughts to a life of happiness in less than a day.
This is what he describes
“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.” “Maybe,” I thought, “only one of them is real” (
http://ir.nmu.org.ua/bitstream/handl...pdf?sequence=1). (Audio book:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pexwgk6pabQ)
Discuss.