This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.
ECKHART TOLLEWorry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
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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Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
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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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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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Man made God in his own image.
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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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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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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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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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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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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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Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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Give 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.
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Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
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Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
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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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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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This, too, will pass.
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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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The past has no power over the present moment.
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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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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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