If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
ECKHART TOLLEDon’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
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This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.
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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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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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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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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
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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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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
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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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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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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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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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