Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
ECKHART TOLLERealize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
ECKHART TOLLEGive 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.
ECKHART TOLLETo love is to recognize yourself in another.
ECKHART TOLLEIs there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
ECKHART TOLLEThe more you are focused on time – past and future – the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
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 TOLLEThe primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
ECKHART TOLLELife isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
ECKHART TOLLEDon’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
ECKHART TOLLEThis, too, will pass.
ECKHART TOLLEDeath 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.
ECKHART TOLLEWhatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
ECKHART TOLLEIt is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
ECKHART TOLLEWords reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
ECKHART TOLLEAll the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
ECKHART TOLLELife will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
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