The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
ECKHART TOLLETo love is to recognize yourself in another.
More Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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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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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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If not now, when?
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Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
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Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
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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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All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
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Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.
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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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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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