The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
ECKHART TOLLEWhat a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
More Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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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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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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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
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All problems are illusions of the mind.
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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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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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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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All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
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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.
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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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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
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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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