All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind. - Eckhart Tolle

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. (Ch 8)

Every outer purpose is doomed to “fail” sooner or later, simply because it is subject to the law of impermanence of all things.

All the misery on the planet arises due to a personalized sense of me or us. That covers up the essence of who you are. When you are unaware of that inner essence, in the end, you always create misery. It's as simple as that. When you don't know who you are, you create a mind-made self as a substitute for your beautiful, divine being and cling to that fearful and needy self. Protecting and enhancing that false sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force. (Ch 5)