You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
ECKHART TOLLEYou find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
ECKHART TOLLETo love is to recognize yourself in another.
ECKHART TOLLEThe past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
ECKHART TOLLEWhenever 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.
ECKHART TOLLELife is the dancer and you are the dance.
ECKHART TOLLEDon’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
ECKHART TOLLETime isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.
ECKHART TOLLEPleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
ECKHART TOLLEOnly the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
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.
ECKHART TOLLELife will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
ECKHART TOLLEBeing must be felt. It can’t be thought.
ECKHART TOLLEWhatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
ECKHART TOLLERealize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
ECKHART TOLLEYou can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
ECKHART TOLLEGive 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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