Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
ECKHART TOLLEPleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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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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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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Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
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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.
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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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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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Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
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This, too, will pass.
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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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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
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The past has no power over the present moment.
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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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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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Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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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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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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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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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
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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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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
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If not now, when?
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