Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
ECKHART TOLLEYou can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
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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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If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
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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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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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Man made God in his own image.
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Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
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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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