If not now, when?
ECKHART TOLLEGive 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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Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
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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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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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All problems are illusions of the mind.
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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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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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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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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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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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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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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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This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.
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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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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
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Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
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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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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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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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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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Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
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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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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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