What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.
Eckhart TolleI know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.
Eckhart TolleThe first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness... seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.
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 Tolle