Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am, that I cannot find myself in all those things that continuously pass away. The Buddha was probably the first human being to see this clearly, and so anata (no self) became one of the central points of his teaching.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am, that I cannot find myself in all those things that continuously pass away. The Buddha was probably the first human being to see this clearly, and so anata (no self) became one of the central points of his teaching." in the context of "Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (2005) p. 50" to mean that wisdom is timeless.