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The past has no power over the present moment.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle Education Inspirational Life Philosophy Truth Wisdom

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

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Eckhart Tolle Inspirational Life Time

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.

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Eckhart Tolle Death Desire Life Transience Worry

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

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Eckhart Tolle Inspirational Spiritual

Man made God in his own image...

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Eckhart Tolle Inspirational

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

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I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

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Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

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Eckhart Tolle Judgment Peace Wisdom

Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.

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Eckhart Tolle Anger Pain Wisdom

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.Let it teach you Being.Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.

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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

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Die before you die and find that there is no death.

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Eckhart Tolle Death Life

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

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Eckhart Tolle Dreams Goals In Life Inspirational Life Lessons Self Motivation Spiritual Growth

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

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Eckhart Tolle Being Present Time

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

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When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.

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Eckhart Tolle Attitude Attitudes Change Fear Hostility Perception

If there were nothing but thought in you. You wouldn't even know your thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he's dreaming. You would be as identified with thought as a dreamer is with every image in the dream.

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Eckhart Tolle Consciousness Dreams Thoughts

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

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Eckhart Tolle Acceptance Freedom Space

See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

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Eckhart Tolle Action Change Complaining Negativity Power Victimization

With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.

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Eckhart Tolle Inspirational Spiritual

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

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Eckhart Tolle Adapt Consciousness Crisis Evolution Nature Survival

All problems are illusions of the mind.

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Eckhart Tolle Illusion Mind Problem

Mind isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

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Eckhart Tolle Life Mind Spiritual Growth Spiritual Wisdom

Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly -- you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

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Eckhart Tolle Destruction Mind Thinking

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life - it is very fleeting Do not identify with your thoughts - continued indentification with the stream of thinking leads to a very serious dysfunction in ones sense of identity...

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Eckhart Tolle Consciousness Mind Spiritual

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

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Eckhart Tolle Darkness Evil Forgiveness Human Unconsciousness Light Power Presence Realization

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you. You easily lose yourself in them, become hypnotized into implicitly believing that when you have attached a word to something, you know what it is. The fact is: You don’t know what it is. You have only covered up the mystery with a label. Everything, a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being, is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg.

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Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.

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Eckhart Tolle Church Cults Ego Movements Politics Reality Religion

Some churches, sects, cults, or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.

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Eckhart Tolle Cults Ego Political Reality Religion

I would say about 80 to 90 percent of people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunction and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will know this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle Positive Thinking

For awhile, I was left with nothing on the physical plane. I had no relationships, no job, no home, no socially defined identity. I spent almost two years sitting on park benches in a state of the most intense joy.

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Eckhart Tolle Joy Mindfullness Minimalism

You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness has identified with. That's the peace of God. The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

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Eckhart Tolle Inspirational Psychology Spiritual Spirituality

Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for non-reaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through. You look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence.

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Eckhart Tolle Ego Enemy Forgiveness Non Reaction Personalization Strength Weakness

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.

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Eckhart Tolle Reaction Self Strength

When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A depth returns to your life. Things regain their newness, their freshness. And the greatest miracle is the experiencing of your essential self as prior to any words, thoughts, mental labels and images.

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Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

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The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

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Eckhart Tolle Past Present Relationship

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

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Eckhart Tolle Inspirational New Age Spiritual Quotes

Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle Compassion Peace

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

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Eckhart Tolle Awareness Emotions Thoughts
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