If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.
Eckhart TolleThe pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
Eckhart TolleMany people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
Eckhart Tolle...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
Eckhart Tolle