Eckhart Tolle argues that "I am" is the Bible's greatest sentence, God's definition of Himself. He says this eternal state of pure being isn't a belief but something you can realize right now by stopping thought. When thinking ceases, you touch a "nothing" that's actually the ground of all existence.
I am is perhaps the greatest sentence in the Bible, is God's definition of him, her, itself. When the prophet asks— meets God on the top of the mountain and asks, what's your name? And God says, I am. And Jesus said in the Gospel of John, before Abraham was, I am. It is a timeless, eternal, Beingness of you. The wonderful thing is it's not just— it's not a belief. It's something that can be realized immediately, here and now. All that is required is a temporary cessation of the stream of thinking, and something else opens up, which at first looks like nothing. But it's only nothing in the sense that it is not a thing. No thing. Ultimately, one could say it is everything prior to manifestation. That's the I Am. This pure beingness can be easily sensed at any moment, and it can become the backdrop or the background to, to the rest of your life.
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