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 TOLLELiving up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
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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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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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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
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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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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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The past has no power over the present moment.
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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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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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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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
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