A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.
Eckhart TolleStressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.
Eckhart TolleReligion 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 TolleThe Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolated things or events. Underneath the surface appearance, all things are interconnected, are part of the totality of the cosmos that has brought about the form that this moment takes.
Eckhart Tolle