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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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
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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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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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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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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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Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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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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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
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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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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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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
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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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