For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.
Eckhart TolleTrue salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.
Eckhart TolleWhen your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.
Eckhart TolleYou cannot have a desire to surrender because that's non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don't even have a word for it. And I know that openness is there in many people.
Eckhart Tolle