It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
ECKHART TOLLETo recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
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If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
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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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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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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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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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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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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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This, too, will pass.
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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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All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
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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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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.
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Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.
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The past has no power over the present moment.
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This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.
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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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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
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All problems are illusions of the mind.
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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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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
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