“….people have been trying for centuries to love their neighbor as themselves. But they have been finding it difficult because loving your neighbor as yourself really means, first of all, you need to be in touch with yourself, the self that you are beyond form. And then you can love your neighbor as yourself because you recognize your oneness with your neighbor.

…I call love the recognizing yourself in the other, and yourself the essential self. Then, when I meet people and interact with people, I see them on two levels. On one level, they are the form, which is the body and their psychological makeup. On another level, they are the consciousness that I also am, that pure essence.

It much easier to interact with people and much more pleasant, because sometimes the personality, the psychological makeup, is not that wonderful. And then one is able to let go, because you can sense beyond that there is an essence to that human being.”

~Eckhart Tolle, in The Wisdom of Sundays, Life-Changing Insights from Super Soul Conversations, Oprah Winfrey (Oprah Books, 2017) p.100.