Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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Listen to people's stories and they all could be entitled 'Why I Cannot Be At Peace Now' The ego doesn't know that your only opportunity for being at peace is now.
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You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are it!
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
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To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
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Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
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The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.
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Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
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Ask yourself what 'problem' you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?
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In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.
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You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.
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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'
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All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.