Eckhart Tolle Quotes
Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite.
Tolle, Eckhart. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. New World Library, 1999.
Nguyen Ai Quoc was early pseudonym. It was many years and millions of combatants sacrificed, but the Vietnamese resistance finally won.
His perspective is that it takes major compromise on both parties to make peace. As long as one or both of the parties have hope that they do not have to compromise, they will not and peace is not achieved. At the same time, if either part is certain that they are right or will win in the end, they will not likely compromise—hence Hopkin’s statement.
Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and best-selling author. He is a German-born resident of Canada best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. In 2008, The New York Times called Tolle "the most popular spiritual author in the United States." In 2011, he was listed by Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world. Tolle does not identify with any specific religion, but he has been influenced by a wide range of spiritual works.
