This is just a sample of the comparisons made between authors Eckhart Tolle and Barry Long on this site. For more tables like these, go here.
| Barry Long On the unhappy/emotional body or pigmy |
Eckhart Tolle On the emotional pain-body |
| ‘Your “unhappy body” is composed entirely of . . . painful emotional material’, [so] I will refer to it . . . as your emotional body.[1] (1994) | ‘Almost everyone carries . . . an accumulation of old emotional pain which I call “the pain body”’[2] (2005) |
| It is a ‘dark body of accumulated emotional energy’[3] (1987) | It is ‘a semi-autonomous energy-form . . . made up of emotion’[4] (2005) |
| ‘[Your] earliest of emotions did not remain fragmented. In their pain and isolation they drew together inside you.’[5] (1994) | ‘The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion . . . join together . . . in the very cells of your body.’[6] (2005) |
| It ‘lives in each one of us’[7] (1987) | It ‘lives within most human beings’[8] (2005) |
| ‘By the time your “unhappy body” matures, you are emotionally hooked — addicted to . . . emotional pain or unhappiness.’[9] (1994) | ‘Any emotionally painful experience can be used as food by the pain-body. . . . The pain-body is an addiction to unhappiness.’[10] (2005) |
| It’s ‘a cunningly intelligent entity’[11] (1987) | It’s ‘an entity . . . [with] primitive intelligence, not unlike a cunning animal’[12] (2005) |
| ‘Is the living past in you’[13] (1987) | ‘It is the living past in you’[14] (1997) |
| ‘A parasite’[15] (1994) | ‘A psychic parasite’[16] (2005) |
| ‘Does not want to be found out’[17] (1994) | ‘Afraid of being found out’[18] (1997) |
| ‘Does not want to die’[19] (1994) | ‘Wants to survive’[20] (1997) |
| Has ‘dormant’ and ‘active’ periods[21] (1994) | Has ‘dormant and active’ modes[22] (1997) |
| ‘Responsible for all your negative moods . . . and unhappiness.’[23] (1987) | ‘Any sign of unhappiness in yourself, in whatever form . . . may be the . . . pain-body.’[24] (1997) |
| ‘Affect[s] . . . parts of the body with aches and pains.’[25] (1994) | ‘Creates[s] physical aches and pains in different parts of the body.’[26] (1997) |