Hassan Gamal

“The first thing to remember is this: As long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot become free of it.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“You will not have illusory expectations that anything to anybody in the future will save you or make you happy. .. Nor will you remain inactive through fear of failure, which to the ego is loss of self. When your deeper sense of self is derived from being, when you are free of "becoming" as a psychological need, neither your happiness nor your sense of self depends on the outcome, and so there is freedom from fear. You don't see permanency where it cannot be found: in the world of form, of gain and loss, birth and death. You don't demand that situations, conditions, places or people should make you happy and then suffer when they don't live out to your expectations.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“The compulsion to do, and the tendency to derive your sense of self-worth and identity from external factors such as achievement, is an inevitable illusion as long as you are identified with the mind. This makes it hard or impossible for you to accept the low cycles and allow them to be.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“In ordinary unconsciousness, habitual resistance to or denial of what is creates the unease and discontent that most people accept as normal living. When this resistance becomes intensified through some challenge or threat to the ego, it brings up intense negativity such as anger, acute fear, aggression, depression, and so on. Deep unconsciousness often means that the pain-body has been triggered and that you have become identified with it. Physical violence would be impossible without deep unconsciousness,”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, The Art of Happiness 10th Anniversary Edition, You Are a Badass, Life Leverage 4 Books Collection Set