Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
ECKHART TOLLEIf you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
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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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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
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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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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
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Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
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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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Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
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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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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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The more you are focused on time – past and future – the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
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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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