Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
ECKHART TOLLELife isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
ECKHART TOLLEBeing must be felt. It can’t be thought.
ECKHART TOLLEBeing spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
ECKHART TOLLEDon’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
ECKHART TOLLEThe past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
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 TOLLEIf not now, when?
ECKHART TOLLEAwareness is the greatest agent for change.
ECKHART TOLLETo love is to recognize yourself in another.
ECKHART TOLLEOnly the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
ECKHART TOLLEAll true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
ECKHART TOLLEIs there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
ECKHART TOLLEYou find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
ECKHART TOLLEThe primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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 TOLLEAny 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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