Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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.
More Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
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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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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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All problems are illusions of the mind.
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This, too, will pass.
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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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Man made God in his own image.
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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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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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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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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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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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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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