Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
ECKHART TOLLETo recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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This, too, will pass.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
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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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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
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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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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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The past has no power over the present moment.
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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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Man made God in his own image.
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