Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
ECKHART TOLLEWhenever 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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Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
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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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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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This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.
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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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Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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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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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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The past has no power over the present moment.
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
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Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
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This, too, will pass.
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