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.
ECKHART TOLLERealize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
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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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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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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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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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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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What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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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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Man made God in his own image.
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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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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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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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