Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
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.
More Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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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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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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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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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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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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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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Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
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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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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
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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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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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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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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
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This, too, will pass.
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All problems are illusions of the mind.
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If not now, when?
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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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What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
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