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 TolleIf you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
Eckhart TolleHope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.
Eckhart TolleTrue intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.
Eckhart Tolle