To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
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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The more you are focused on time – past and future – the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
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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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Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
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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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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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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
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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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Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
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Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
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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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