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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More Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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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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Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.
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Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
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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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Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive.
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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
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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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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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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
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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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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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All problems are illusions of the mind.
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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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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
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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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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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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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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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