MENTAL COMMENTARY

Eckhart Tolle talks about the mental commentary, the voice in our heads, that comes from conditioned consciousness. 
 
I once knew a man who talked to himself openly.  I asked him why he did it, and he said it was because no one else would talk to him.  I said I admired his independence, and he said he’d talk to himself about it.
 
The beauty of talking to yourself is that more often than not you’ll get a reply.  This is as opposed to talking to God, for instance, in which case you will not get a reply, and if you do, you’ve got a problem.