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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Eckhart Tolle

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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Acceptance Act Against Always Choose Contain Moments Present
All problems are illusions of the mind.
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Illusion Mind One Liner Problem
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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Concern Define Die Give Up Life Limitation People Problem Yourself
Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
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Life Purpose React Strong
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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Consicious Field Function InterAction Lose People Presence Role
All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
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Arise Beyond Creative Joy Love Mind Peace
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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Common Inspirational Life People Spend Start
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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Action Learning Mistake Motivational Situation Stuck Time Unhappy
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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Head Liberty Realize See Voice
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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Artist Creation Mind Place
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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Exclusive Love Person Select
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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Change Creation Emerge Life Negative Realize Space Surface
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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Anger Pain Underneath
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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Hide Thinking World
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.
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Illusion Precious Time
Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
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Necessary Pretend Purpose Serve Use Worry

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