Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
ECKHART TOLLEThe 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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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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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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Man made God in his own image.
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The past has no power over the present moment.
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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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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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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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The 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.
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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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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
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