THE END OF YOUR LIFE DRAMA
Most of the “bad” things that happen in life are due to unconsciousness. They are self-created or rather, ego- created. I sometimes refer to those things as “drama”. When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore. Let me remind you briefly how the ego operates and how it creates drama.

The ego is the unobserved mind that runs your life when you are not present as the witnessing consciousness, the watcher. The ego believes itself a separate fragment in a hostile universe, with no real inner connection to any other being, surrounded by other egos which it either sees as potential threat or which it will attempt to use for its own ends. The basic ego patterns are designed to combat its own deep-seated fear and sense of lack. They are resistance, control, power, greed, defense, attack.

Some of the ego’s strategies are clever, yet they never solve any of its problems, simply because the ego itself is the problem.
When egos come together, in personal relationships or in organizations or institutions, “bad” things happen sooner or later. Drama in one form or another, in the form of conflict, problems, power struggles, emotional or physical violence and so on. This includes collective evils such as war, genocide and exploitation – all due to massed unconsciousness.

When you reconnect with Being and are no longer run by your mind, you cease to create those things. You do not create or participate in drama any longer. But even if you live totally alone, you may still create your own drama. When you feel sorry for yourself, that’s drama, when you feel guilty or anxious, that’s drama. Most people are in love with their particular life drama. Their story is their identity. The ego runs their life.
When you live in complete acceptance of ‘what is’, that is the end of all the drama in your life.
-The Power of Now, Eckart Tolle, pages 150-151.