You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So while your inner purpose is to negate time, your outer purpose necessarily involves future and so could not exist without time. But it is always secondary. Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.
Eckhart TolleI never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it.
Eckhart TolleNon-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.
Eckhart TolleUnderneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.
Eckhart Tolle