What is commonly called “falling in love” is in most cases and intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "What is commonly called “falling in love” is in most cases and intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever." in the context of "Eckhart Tolle, in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (2005)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.