The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
ECKHART TOLLEMan made God in his own image.
More Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
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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 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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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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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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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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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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If not now, when?
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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 problems are illusions of the mind.
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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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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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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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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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All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
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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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To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
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Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.
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What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
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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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Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
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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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