Eckhart Tolle Quotes

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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

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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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Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.

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When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

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That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space...it is also within you.

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You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.

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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

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On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.

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A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.

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Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment... you can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

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All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

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Instead of asking "what do I want from life?", a more powerful question is, "what does life want from me?"

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The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

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If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.

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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

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Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

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How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.

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Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it. … Can you accept the isness of this moment and not confuse it with a story the mind has created around it?

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Always say yes to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say yes to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

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You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.

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Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

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Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

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Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.

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Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

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No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not absolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or thought.

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The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

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Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

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If there is no joy, ease, or lightness in what you are doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how. How is always more important than what. See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

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