If not now, when?
ECKHART TOLLEAccept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
More Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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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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Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
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Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
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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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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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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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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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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
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Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.
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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
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This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.
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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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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
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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 the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
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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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Man made God in his own image.
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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
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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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This, too, will pass.
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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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