The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.
Eckhart TolleBefore I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was affecting the world. I had a sense there was already a book somehow in existence. I drew a circle on a piece of paper and it said "book." Then I wrote something about the effect the book had on the world, how it influenced my life and other people's lives, and how it came to be translated into many languages affecting hundreds of thousands of people.
Eckhart TolleYou are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
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 Tolle