Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
ECKHART TOLLEWords reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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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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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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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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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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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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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
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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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Man made God in his own image.
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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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Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.
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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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