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 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.
ECKHART TOLLEWhat a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
ECKHART TOLLETo recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
ECKHART TOLLEAll true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
ECKHART TOLLEYou find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
ECKHART TOLLEIs there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
ECKHART TOLLEIt is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
ECKHART TOLLEAnything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
ECKHART TOLLEWorry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
ECKHART TOLLESome changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
ECKHART TOLLEThe moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.
ECKHART TOLLEAny 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.
ECKHART TOLLEBeing spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
ECKHART TOLLEIf not now, when?
ECKHART TOLLEMan made God in his own image.
ECKHART TOLLEYou can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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