ECKHART TOLLE's Partner (KIM ENG) on "What is it like to be in relationship with an enlightened being?"

Eckhart Tolle: What is conventionally called “love” is an ego strategy to avoid surrender.

During my travels, one of the most frequently asked question is “What is it like to be in relationship with an enlightened being?” Why this question? Perhaps they have the idea or image of an ideal relationship, and want to know more about it. Perhaps their mind wants to project itself to a future time when they, too, will be in an ideal relationship and find themselves through it. What is it like to be in relationship with an enlightened being? As long as I have the idea in my head “I have a relationship” or “I am in a relationship,” no matter with whom, I suffer. This I have learnt.…

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