The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
ECKHART TOLLEIs 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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Man made God in his own image.
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If not now, when?
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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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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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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
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Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
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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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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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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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What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
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