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What is commonly called “falling in love” is in most cases and 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 Tolle A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (2005)

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Because the ego was never as deeply rooted in woman, it is losing its hold on women more quickly than on men.

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Hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

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Things are changing rapidly now. With many people becoming more conscious, the ego is losing its hold on the human mind.

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You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.

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