“Master,” Bizah said one day.  “Some say that everything we see is just an illusion.  That all is really illusion.  If this is so, how do I know that I am not an illusion, just dreaming that I am Bizah?”

“Oh, yes,” replied the Master.  “I have heard this many times too. You are not ready to go too deeply into this yet, but I will ask you,  “Do you feel you are real?”

“Why, yes, of course.  I’m here talking to you now, aren’t I?”

Eckhart Tolle shared a memorable personal story with me. 

In the mid-1990s, Eckhart was visiting San Francisco for the first time and booked into a small, comfortable hotel in the downtown area. Wishing to explore the city, he approached the concierge with several questions.