The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
ECKHART TOLLEPleasure 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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This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.
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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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All problems are illusions of the mind.
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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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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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Man made God in his own image.
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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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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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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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If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
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The past has no power over the present moment.
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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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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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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
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