The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
ECKHART TOLLEYou can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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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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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
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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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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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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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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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You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
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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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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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If not now, when?
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This, too, will pass.
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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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