The more you are focused on time – past and future – the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
ECKHART TOLLETime isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.
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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
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This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.
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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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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
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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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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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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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Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
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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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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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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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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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Man made God in his own image.
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