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1) On being present

Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.

When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder,

arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.

2) on divine purpose, and universe

'You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are.'

3) on eckhart tolle

"I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through."

4) on enlightenment, mind, awakening, and consciousness

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Everytime you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch

yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer

take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.

5) on ego, awakening, present, past, future, and self

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of

the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping

the past alive, because without it - who are you?

6) on enlightenment, thought, awakening, mind, and thinking

Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant.

In the enlightened state, you still use your thinking mind when needed, but in a much more focused and effective way

than before.

7) on romance, love, experience, and human condition

The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it

seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human

condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.

8) A Quote by Eckhart Tolle on love and being

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and i t cannot leave you.

9) on love, communication, communion, oneness, and realization

True communication is communionthe realization of oneness, which is love.



10) on forgiveness and transformation

Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present

moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without.

11) on god, being, words, language, awakening, reality, and truth

Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only

important question is whether the word is a help or a hindrance in enabling you to experience That toward which it

points.

12) on mind, thoughts, concepts, and relationship

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and

definitions that blocks all true relationship.

13) on lessons, learning, events, and realization

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see itat the time.

14) on self, interesting, inside, outside, interior, curiosity, and ease

in curiosity ease inside interesting interior outside self

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside

will fall into place.

15) on acceptance, responsibility, tolerance, happiness, and change

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you havethree options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

16) on self, awakening, presence, present, past, and enlightenment

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

17) on awakening, god, enlightenment, and seeking

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God.

18) on transformation, change, grace, love, transform, self, awakening, and enlightenment



As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and

you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to

happen, for grace and love to enter.

19) on power, strength, and weakness

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power if within, and it is available to you now.

20) on ego, identification, possessions, recognition, knowledge, education, and self

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition,

knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief

systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications.

None of these is you.

21) on death, dying, self, ego, and freedom

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" — and find that there is nodeath.

22) on presence, mind, thoughts, ego, and attachment

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in itself is a

wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.

23) A Quote by Eckhart Tolle on mind, ego, time, identity, self, and enlightenment

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory

and anticipation.

24) on life, time, now, and present

Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

25) on past, future, and now

Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in

the Now.

26) on pain, suffering mind, and freedom

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

27) on pain, suffering, resistance, judgment, negativity, moment, and ego

The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what

is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of

negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn

depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind.



28) on anger, pain, and suffering

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

29) on fear, danger, anxiety, now, moment, and peace

The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in manyforms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is

always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.

30) on love, joy, peace, mind, peacefulness, freedom, and thoughts

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.

31) on pleasure, joy, freedom, and self

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

32) on spirituality, truth, and reminding

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you

have forgotten.

33) on artists, stillness, mind, and peace

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

34) on emotion, mind, body, reflection, and reaction

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind — or you might say, a

reflection of your mind in the body.

35) on mind, thinking, life, body, and thought

It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are

being sustained.

36) on awareness, unconscious, mind, thoughts, body, and emotion

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be

reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

37) on evil, love, awareness, consciousness, and manifestation

Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.

38) on Now

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.



39) on Help

Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the

eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be

working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.

40) on present moment, accepting, is-ness, and now

Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the is-ness of

the NOW. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you will suffer.

41) on now, this moment, problem, and attention

Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.

42) on consciousness, evolution, and universe

Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't

matter on cosmic scale. No gain in consciousness is ever lost, so it would simply express itself through some other form. But the very fact that I am speaking here and you are listening or reading this is a clear sign that the new

consciousness is gaining a foothold on the planet.

43) on self, fish, and entity

If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history,

and in two minutes he gets eaten by another fish -- that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate

self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and a separate entity

out of it.

44) on energy field, inner body, true nature, form, and identity

Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room.

The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never

lose touch with it.

45) on ripple, wave, being, and organism

In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the

surface of your Being.

46) on descartes, thinking, being, and identity

The philosopher Descartes believed that he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous

statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with

Being and identity with thinking.

47) on how, what, and doing

"How" is always more important that "what." See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result

that you want to achieve through it.



48) on outer, inner, and purpose

The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening

of your being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.

49) on life, secret, and death

The secret of life is to "die before you die" -- and find that there is no death.

50) ―The past has no power over the present moment.‖

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51) ―Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for

something new to emerge.‖

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52) ―The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.‖

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53) ―Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.‖

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54) ―Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.‖

55) ―To love is to recognize yourself in another.‖

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56) ―Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned

with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you

interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can

only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.‖

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57) ―Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know

this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.‖

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58) ―Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.‖

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59) ―Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.‖

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60) ―Life is the dancer and you are the dance.‖

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61) ―You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.‖

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62) ―You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest

level.‖

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63) ―Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.‖

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64) ―Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.‖

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―A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine

relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting

whatsoever.‖

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―Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no

death.‖

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―Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.‖

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

thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.‖

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―Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.‖

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―Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose‖

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―Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived

as positive; inner peace does not.‖



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―This, too, will pass.‖

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―Time isn‘t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point thatis 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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―Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not

against it.‖

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―All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.‖

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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. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.‖

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―Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not

exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the "love" of ego. However, the intensity with which true love is felt

can vary. There may be one person who reflects your love back to you more clearly and more intensely than others,

and if that person feels the same toward you, it can be said that you are in a love relationship with him or her. The

bond that connects you with that person is the same bond that connects you with the person sitting next to you on a

bus, or with a bird, a tree, a flower. Only the degree of intensity with which it is felt differs.‖

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―Always say ―yes‖ to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to

what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to

what is. Say ―yes‖ to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.‖

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―All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.‖

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―Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.‖

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―Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.‖



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―Being must be felt. It can't be thought.‖

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―Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.‖

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

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―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.‖

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―Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.‖

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―Awareness is the greatest agent for change.‖

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―To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent

upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on

form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or

conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part,and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them - while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles

will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease.‖

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―If not now, when?‖

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―What a liberation to realize that the ―voice in my head‖ is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.‖

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―Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind r emain unchanged,

we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.‖

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―Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness‖



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―If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.‖

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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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―What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.‖

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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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―All problems are illusions of the mind.‖

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―...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both

are illusions.‖

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―The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self -created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.‖

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―Man made God in his own image...‖

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―The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old,

conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.‖

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―As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy

and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of

quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.‖

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―Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.‖



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―This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.‖

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―The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.‖

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―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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―Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight

of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is

primary, all else secondary.‖

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―Become conscious of being conscious.‖

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―It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us,

and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.‖

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―Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you

from being present now, what power does it have?‖

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―Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave

you.‖

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―In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.‖

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―Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.‖

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―...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a

mere person is capable of.‖

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―When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both

of you. That is the love that redeems the world.‖

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―Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.‖


―Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence,

which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.‖

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―Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn‘t very much.‖

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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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―every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.‖

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―You have so much to learn from your enemies.‖

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―Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.‖

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―The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.‖

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―Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.‖

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―The human condition: lost in thought.‖

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

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―Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life‖

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―Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.‖

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―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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―Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called"God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental

concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the

living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life.‖

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―The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own

dysfunction.‖

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―You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means toprotect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.‖

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―The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not ―the thinker.‖ The moment you start watching the thinker,

a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence

beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly

matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.‖

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―One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your

consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at

this moment.‖

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―In the eyes of the ego, self -esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.‖



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―With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.‖

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―Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.‖

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―Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.‖

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―Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your

mind.‖

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―The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition,

knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief

systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.‖

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―On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.‖

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―If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened

with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.‖

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―the primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but you thoughts about it‖

Eckhart Tolle

―Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself.

When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder,

arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.‖


―You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!‖

Eckhart Tolle

―Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn‘t very much. Language consists of five

basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants



produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever

explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?‖

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―The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on

earth, for its expression.

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―Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that

comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.‖

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―That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the

end of insanity.‖

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―The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of

greatness.‖

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―The mind is a superb instrument 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. All the things

that truly matter — beaut...y, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind...‖

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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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―Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.‖

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―The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.‖

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―Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.‖

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―Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences

itself.‖

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―Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you

had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.‖

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―To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.‖

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―All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with

yourself.‖

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―If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would

think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.‖

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―The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and

lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality‖

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―The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through

inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens. The story of the man whose commentwas invariably a laconic "Maybe" illustrates the wisdom of nonjudgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of

impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment

are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.‖

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―True Power is within, and it is available now.‖

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―And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously.

Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.‖

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―Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering

from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness

that is inseparable from Being.‖



Eckhart Tolle

―If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world doI create?‖

Eckhart Tolle

―Nothing has ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent

you from being present now, what power does it have?‖

Eckhart Tolle

―Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in

the Now.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would

traditionally come into people's lives. This is to say, their inner purpose would emerge only as their outer purpose

collapsed and the shell of the ego would begin to crack open. The emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our

civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: being? What do you do with it?‖

Eckhart Tolle

―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.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―A woman in her thirties came to see me. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite and superficial

smile. She started telling me her story, and within one second her smile changed into a grimace of pain. Then, she

began to sob uncontrollably. She said she felt lonely and unfulfilled.

There was much anger and sadness. As a child she had been abused by a physically violent father. I saw quickly

that her pain was not caused by her present life circumstances but by an extraordinarily heavy pain-body. Her pain-

body had become the filter through which she viewed her life situation.

She was not yet able to see the link between the emotional pain and her thoughts, being completely identified with

both. She could not yet see that she was feeding the pain-body with her thoughts. In other words, she lived with the

burden of a deeply unhappy self. At some level, however, she must have realized that her pain originated within

herself, that she was a burden to herself. She was ready to awaken, and this is why she had come.



I directed the focus of her attention to what she was feeling inside her body and asked her to sense the emotion

directly, instead of through the filter of her unhappy thoughts, her unhappy story. She said she had come expecting

me to show her the way out of her unhappiness, not into it.

Reluctantly, however, she did what I asked her to do. Tears were rolling down her face, her whole body was shaking.

―At this moment, this is what you feel.‖ I said. ―There is nothing you can do about the fact that at this moment this is

what you feel. Now, instead of wanting this moment to be different from the way it is, which adds more pain to the

pain that is already there, is it possible for you to completely accept that this is what you feel right now?‖

She was quiet for a moment. Suddenly she looked impatient, as if she was about to get up, and said angrily, ―No, I

don't want to accept this.‖ ―Who is speaking?‖ I asked her. ―You or the unhappiness in you? Can you see that your

unhappiness about being unhappy is just another layer of unhappiness?‖ She became quiet again. ―I am not asking

you to do anything. All I'm asking is that you find out whether it is possible for you to allow those feelings to be there.

In other words, and this may sound strange, if you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

Don't you want to find out?‖

She looked puzzled briefly, and after a minute or so of sitting silently, I suddenly noticed a significant shift in her

energy field. She said, ―This is weird. I 'm still unhappy, but now there is space around it. It seems to matter less.‖

This was the first time I heard somebody put it like that: There is space around my unhappiness. That space, of

course, comes when there is inner acceptance of whatever you are experiencing in the present moment.

I didn't say much else, allowing her to be with the experience. Later she came to understand that the moment she

stopped identifying with the feeling, the old painful emotion that lived in her, the moment she put her attention on it

directly without trying to resist it, it could no longer control her thinking and so become mixed up with a mentally

constructed story called ―The Unhappy Me.‖ Another dimension had come into her life that transcended her personal

past – the dimension of Presence. Since you cannot be unhappy without an unhappy story, this was the end of her unhappiness. It was also the beginning of the end of her pain-body. Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only

emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness.

When our session came to an end, it was fulfilling to know that I had just witnessed the arising of Presence in another

human being. The very reason for our existence in human form is to bring that dimension of consciousness into this

world. I had also witnessed a diminishment of the pain-body, not through fighting it but through bringing the light of

consciousness to it.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the

likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness‖

Eckhart Tolle



―If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks

below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is

now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is

some form of negativity, complaining, fear, aggression, or anger. This is important because whenever you complain

about what somebody else does you're already beginning to fall into that trap of unconsciousness.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always

now. So while your inner purpose is to negate time, your outer purpose necessarily involves future and so could not

exist without time. But it is always secondary. Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken

over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else

secondary.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal

point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―All things that truly matter - beauty , love , creativity ,joy , inner-peace - arise from beyond the mind .‖

Eckhart Tolle

―Deny thy self!‖

Eckhart Tolle

―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.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly

deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational

frequency becomes.‖

Eckhart Tolle



―Negativity is totally unnatural. It is a psychic pollutant, and there is a deep link between the poisoning and

destruction of nature and the vast negativity that has accumulated in the collective human psyche. No other life-form

on the planet knows negativity, only humans, just as no other life-form violates and poisons the Earth that sustains it.

Have you ever seen an unhappy flower or a stressed oak tree? Have you some across a depressed dolphin, a frog

that has a problem with self-esteem, a cat that cannot relax, or a bird that carries hatred and resentment? The only

animals that may occasionally experience something akin to negativity or show signs of neurotic behavior are thosethat live in close contact with humans and so link into the humans mind and its insanity.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you f rom being present now, and if the past cannot prevent you

from being present now, what power does it have?‖

Eckhart Tolle

―Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do

so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an

evolutionary stage that we are now growing out of?

Jesus‘ words, ―Forgive them for they do not know what they do,‖ also apply to yourself.‖

Eckhart Tolle ―whatever you fight, you strengthyen. What you resist, persists. "A New Earth":War is a mind set‖

Eckhart Tolle ―If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past

perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the

future.‖

Eckhart Tolle ―So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of

form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of

consciousness itself.‖


―Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―The present moment is all you will ever have.‖

Eckhart Tolle

“I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its ―problems‖ becausethey are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and

feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or

God. It gives definition to my self-image, makes me into someone, and that is all that matters to the ego.‖

― Eckhart Tolle



“When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly

it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to

who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.‖

― Eckhart Tolle

“Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and

when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.‖

― Eckhart Tolle

“To love is to recognize yourself in another..‖

― Eckhart Tolle

“If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not

enlightenment.‖

― Eckhart Tolle

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

― Eckhart Tolle

―Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―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.‖

Eckhart Tolle

―Many people don‘t realize until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had

anything to do with who they are.‖

Eckhart Tolle

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

Eckhart Tolle

“The ego says, ‗I shouldn‘t have to suffer,‘ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the

truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.‖

― Eckhart Tolle



“Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious

level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person.

You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon.

It is also insane.‖

― Eckhart Tolle

“You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don‘t have a life. You are

life.‖

― Eckhart Tolle

“By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the

vocal cords." (p. 28)‖

― Eckhart Tolle

“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.‖

― Eckhart Tolle

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

― Eckhart Tolle

“Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.‖

― Eckhart Tolle

“Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.‖

― Eckhart Tolle

“What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the

past, you reactivate a memory trace -- and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future

obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the

sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is

"borrowed" from the Now.‖

― Eckhart Tolle



“ And then one day, you too disappear. Your armchair is still there. But instead of you sitting in it, there is just an

empty space. You went back to where you came from just a few years ago.‖

― Eckhart Tolle

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

― Eckhart Tolle

Humans have learned to split the atom. Instead of killing ten or twenty people with a wooden club, one person can

now kill a million just by pushing a button. Is that real change?‖

― Eckhart Tolle

“The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that

people who have never glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great

conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it, as if they knew what it is they are

denying. This misuse gives rise to absurd beliefs, assertions, and egoic delusions, such as "My or our God is the only

true God, and your God is false," or Nietzsche's famous statmeent "God is dead.‖

― Eckhart Tolle

“Instead of asking, ―what do I want from life?,‖ a more powerful question is, ―what does life want from me?‖

― Eckhart Tolle

“why Human should not look at the past?‖

―Eckhart Tolle

“Everything is honored, but nothing matters.‖

― Eckhart Tolle

“ A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to

restore it. I recommend that you experiment with this from time to time. For example, when someone criticizes you,

blames you, or calls you names, instead of immediately retaliating or defending yourself – do nothing. Allow the self-

image to remain diminished and become alert to what that feels like deep inside you. For a few seconds, it may feel

uncomfortable, as if you had shrunk in size. Then you may sense an inner speciousness that feels intensely alive.

You haven't been diminished at all. In fact, you have expanded. You may then come to an amazing realization: Whenyou are seemingly diminished in some way and remain in absolute non-reaction, not just externally but also

internally, you realize that nothing real has been diminished, that through becoming ―less,‖ you become more. When

you no longer defend or attempt to strengthen the form of yourself, you step out of identification with form, with

mental self-image. Through becoming less (in the ego‘s perception), you in fact undergo an expansion and make

room for Being to come forward. True power, who you are beyond form, can then shine through the apparently

weakened form. This is what Jesus means when he says, ―Deny yourself‖ or ―Turn the other cheek.‖



― Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering

from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness

that is inseparable from Being.

ECKHART TOLLE, The Power of Now

When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You havestepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.

ECKHART TOLLE, Stillness Speaks

The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived

every time.

ECKHART TOLLE, A New Earth

Dogmas--religious, political, scientific--arise out of erroneous belief that thought can encapsulate reality or truth.

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."


Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles

and builds atom bombs.




Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.


What is commonly called "falling in love" is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You

become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which

contains no wanting whatsoever.


Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.


Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and

listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.


Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret to life is to "die before you die"--and find that there is no

death.


The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are

illusions.




Religion, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about an ending of

violence and hatred through a realization of the fundamental oneness of all life, they brought more violence and

hatred, more divisions between people as well as between different religions and even within the same religion. They

became ideologies, belief systems people could identify with and so use them to enhance their false sense of self.

Through them, they could make themselves "right" and others "wrong" and thus define their identity through their

enemies, the "others," the "nonbelievers" or "wrong believers" who not infrequently they saw themselves justified in

killing.


Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.


Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness

itself.


Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.


The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is

now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.


Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.


The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.




To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incrediblemomentum, will drag you along like a wild river.


Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.


War is a mind-set, and all action that comes out of such a mind-set will either strengthen the enemy, the perceived

evil, or, if the war is won, will create a new enemy, a new evil equal to and often worse than the one that was

defeated. There is a deep interrelatedness between your state of consciousness and external reality. When you are

in the grip of a mind-set such as "war," your perceptions become extremely selective as well as distorted. In other

words, you will see only what you want to see and then misinterpret it. You can imagine what kind of action comes

out of such a delusional system. Or instead of imagining it, watch the news on TV tonight.


The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial

wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.


When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it

anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.




Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your

denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.


All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy

of Being.

ECKHART TOLLE The Power of Now

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence. Whatever

you do, whatever you’re working with, whether it’s manual work or talking to people or buying or

selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence. Those people, also, their

state of consciousness spreads not only to everybody they come into contact with, but also on an

unseen level it changes the collective consciousness. ECKHART TOLLE

your inner purpose, which is awakening, being present, being in alignment with life. True power comes

out of the presence; it is the presence. ECKHART TOLLE

true manifestation and visualization works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality

on the unseen level. It’s already there. And when you fully realize it’s already a reality, you feel the

power of it. Then the feeling you have when you look at a treasure map or a vision board is no different

from the feeling you have when it actually comes into manifestation. ECKHART TOLLE

One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, “What

problem do I have at this moment?” ECKHART TOLLE

challenges exist, but problems are mind-made. Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the

present moment and require action. ECKHART TOLLE

So if you have no money, you can apply your mind and say, “What action can I take?” And then become

still. Don’t apply your mind without the stillness because, if you start applying your mind without the

stillness, you might very soon lose yourself in the mind and that turns into worry. Worry means the mind

is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry. ECKHART TOLLE

“The world is not here to make you happy. It is here to make you conscious- ECKHART TOLLE



the important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don’t demand that

the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is

quite satisfying- ECKHART TOLLE

whenever a great loss of any kind occurs to anybody, loss of whatever kind, disaster, something goes

drastically wrong, death, for some people that has been their spiritual breakthrough ECKHART TOLLE

Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is

karma. Action that arises out of a state of “acceptance" is totally free of karma ECKHART TOLLE

Everyone who is awakening will find that sooner or later that they become a kind of teacher to others.

What a spiritual teacher does is point out the possibility of awakening out of identification with

unconscious patterns. The spiritual teacher teaches you to go beyond karma. That is your function, and

will become increasingly so, whether you become a formal teacher, or an informal teacher. ECKHART

TOLLE

True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.

Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in their minds and in endless past and future concerns are

taken back by their dog or cat into the present moment, again and again, and reminded of the joy of Being.

Be alert as you watch a dog at play or at rest. Let the animal teach you to feel at home in the Now, to celebrate life by

being completely present.

The human says, ―I love myself‖, or, ―I hate myself.‖ The dog says, ―Woof, woof,‖ which, translated, means I am

myself

The dog has no self-image, good or bad, so he has no need to play roles, nor does he love himself or hate himself.

He has no self! How to live free of the burden of self. What a great spiritual teaching.

Every being is a spark of the Divine or God.Look into the eyes of the dog and sense that innermost core

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