The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
ECKHART TOLLEThe 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 spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
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Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
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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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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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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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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
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What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
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All problems are illusions of the mind.
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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
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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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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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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
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The past has no power over the present moment.
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Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
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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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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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The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.
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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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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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