Notes

"For example, anger or resentment strengthen the ego enormously by increasing the sense of separateness, emphasizing the otherness of others and creating a seemingly unassailable fortresslike mental position of 'rightness'. If you were able to observe the physiological changes that take place inside your body when possessed by such negative states, how adversely they affect the functioning of the heart, the digestive and immune systems, and countless other bodily functions, it would become abundantly clear that such states are indeed pathological, are forms of suffering and not pleasure." Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose.