Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.
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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
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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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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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… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.
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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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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
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You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.
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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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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
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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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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
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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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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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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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When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.
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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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You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.
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Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?', a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'