If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.
Eckhart TolleWhatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
Eckhart TolleWhenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time
Eckhart TolleWhen you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.
Eckhart TolleBy far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.
Eckhart Tolle