The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
ECKHART TOLLEDon’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
More Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
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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 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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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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If not now, when?
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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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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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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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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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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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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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What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
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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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