Hassan Gamal

“Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace; your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Somebody says something to you that is rude or designed to hurt. Instead of going into unconscious reaction and negativity, such as attack, defense or withdrawal, you let it pass right through you. Offer no resistance. It is as if there is nobody there to get hurt anymore. That is forgiveness. In this way, you become invulnerable. You can still tell that person that his or her behavior is unacceptable, if that is what you choose to do. But that person no longer has the power to control your inner state. You are then in your power - not in someone else's, nor are you run by your mind. Whether it is a car alarm, a rude person, a flood, an earthquake, or the loss of all your possessions, the resistance mechanism is the same”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“It is not true that the up cycle is good and the down cycle bad, except in the mind's judgement. Growth is usually considered positive, but nothing can grow forever. If growth, of whatever kind, were to go on and on, it would eventually become monstrous and destructive. Dissolution us needed for new growth to happen. On cannot exist without the other.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Happiness and unhappiness are in fact one. This is not being negative. It is simply recognizing the nature of things, so that you don't pursue an illusion for the rest of your life. Nor is it saying that you should no longer appreciate pleasant or beautiful things or conditions. But seek something through them that they cannot give - an identity, a sense of permanency and fulfillment - is a recipe for frustration and suffering.

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth.

Nothing can give you joy. Joy is uncaused and arises from within, it is an essential part of the inner state of peace”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment