Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.
Eckhart TolleAs long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them.
Eckhart TolleSome people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.
Eckhart TolleThinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.
Eckhart Tolle