Eckhart Tolle

Many “love” relationships, after the initial euphoria has passed, actually oscillate between “love” and hate, attraction and attack.

Even when the sky is heavily overcast, the sun hasn’t disappeared. It’s still there on the other side of the clouds.

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance. But they are not what I would call emotions.

By dwelling mentally on the situation, event, or person that is the perceived cause of the emotion, the thought feeds energy to the emotion, which in turn energizes the thought pattern, and so on.

Now remember that an emotion is the body’s reaction to your mind.

You are here to enable the divine
purpose of the universe to unfold.
That is how important you are!

the sense of freedom that comes from letting go of self-identification with one’s personal history and life-situation, and a newfound inner peace that arises as one learns to relinquish mental/emotional resistance to the “suchness” of the present moment.

Enlightenment is a state of wholeness, of being “at one” and therefore at peace.

forget,” I mean that you can no longer feel this oneness

mind wrongly — you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you