This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.
ECKHART TOLLEThis is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.
ECKHART TOLLEDon’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
ECKHART TOLLEPleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
ECKHART TOLLEWorry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
ECKHART TOLLEWords reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
ECKHART TOLLELife isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
ECKHART TOLLEAccept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
ECKHART TOLLESome changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
ECKHART TOLLEIt is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
ECKHART TOLLEAll problems are illusions of the mind.
ECKHART TOLLEWhenever 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 TOLLEThe past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
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 TOLLESometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
ECKHART TOLLEThe more you are focused on time – past and future – the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
ECKHART TOLLETo love is to recognize yourself in another.
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