"In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle

“I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.”

“[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you”

“When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.”

“If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.”

“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”

“The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.”

“To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.”

“Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."”

“Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [...] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody.”