Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
ECKHART TOLLEWhat a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
More Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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All problems are illusions of the mind.
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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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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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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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 is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.
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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.
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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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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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Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
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Man made God in his own image.
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Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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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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The past has no power over the present moment.
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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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If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
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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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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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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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