The expression of emptiness is love, because emptiness means “emptiness of self.” When there is no self, there is no other. That duality is created by the idea of self, of I, of ego.When there’s no self, there is a unity, a communion. And without the thought of “I’m loving someone,” love becomes the natural expression of that oneness. — Joseph Goldstein, “The Experience of Insight”
Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind’s identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment. The deeper emotions are not really emotions at all but states of Being. Emotions exist within the realm of opposites. States of Being can be obscured, but they have no opposite. They emanate from within you as the love, joy and peace that are aspects of your true nature. — Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth – Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
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