You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
ECKHART TOLLEDon’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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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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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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Man made God in his own image.
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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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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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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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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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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
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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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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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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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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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To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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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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Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
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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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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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