VacMan, you are projecting all kinds of your own stuff onto Eckhart Tolle. For instance, Tolle never said that Love is bad because it's opposite will eventually have to be felt, too. In fact, Tolle repeatedly says that love, peace and joy have no opposites.
Also, he never suggested that love is "merely" anything, least of all something egoic and undesirable. On the contrary, he holds love as his highest value. He does describe how what people normally and conventionally call "love" is an egoic strategy to avoid surrender; that is, the ego looking for its aliveness in another rather than being present to the one's one conscious vitality. That's where arise all these things like "betrayal" and "faithfulness" and all the suffering that comes with conventional romantic relationships.
Most importantly, the "disease" he speaks of is our tendency to identify with our thinking mind. That is, the insanity of believing we are our thoughts. If you recognize that your thoughts are not Who You Are, you are in a state of awareness that is bright, complete, whole, and now. That's really being human, in the best possible way! Tolle never said he wants people to transcend being human -- that would absolutely be the antithesis of being present! He simply would like to see people "wake up" to the realization that who we really are is the consciousness that recognizes its own human experience in the current moment.
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