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 TOLLESometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
More Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
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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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Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
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This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.
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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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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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To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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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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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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Any 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.
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If not now, when?
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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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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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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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