Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
ECKHART TOLLEDon’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
ECKHART TOLLEBeing must be felt. It can’t be thought.
ECKHART TOLLEDeath 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.
ECKHART TOLLEIf you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
ECKHART TOLLEThis is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.
ECKHART TOLLEWorry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
ECKHART TOLLEThe past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
ECKHART TOLLEIf not now, when?
ECKHART TOLLEAcknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
ECKHART TOLLEWhatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
ECKHART TOLLESometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
ECKHART TOLLEWhere there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
ECKHART TOLLEWhat a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
ECKHART TOLLEThe primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
ECKHART TOLLEGive 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.
ECKHART TOLLEAccept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
ECKHART TOLLE