The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
ECKHART TOLLEOnly the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
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Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive.
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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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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
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Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
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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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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.
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Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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All problems are illusions of the mind.
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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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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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Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
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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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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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