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.
ECKHART TOLLEWords reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
More Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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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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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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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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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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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
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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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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
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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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Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
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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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Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
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This, too, will pass.
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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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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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