Hassan Gamal

“Another aspect of the emotional pain that is an intrinsic part of the egoic mind is a deep-seated sense of lack or incompleteness, of not being whole. In some people, this is conscious, it manifests as the unsettling and constant feeling of not being worthy or good enough.
If it is unconscious, it will only be felt indirectly as an intense craving, wanting and needing. In either case, people will often enter into a compulsive pursuit of ego-gratification and things to identify with in order to fill this hole they fell within. So, they strive after possessions, money, success, power, recognition, or a special relationship, basically so that they can feel better about themselves, feel more complete. But even when they attain all these things, they soon find that the hole is still there, that it is bottomless.”
― 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

“Action arising out of insight into what is required is more effective than action arising out of negativity.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“If you then become excessively focused on the goal, perhaps because you are seeking happiness, fulfillment, or a more complete sense of self in it, the now is no longer honored. it becomes reduced to a mere steppingstone to the future, with no intrinsic value. Clock time then turns into psychological time. Your life's journey is no longer an adventure, just an obsessive need to arrive, to attain, to "make it.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment