Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth (2005)

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

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Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One with Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

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At the height of creative activity fueled by enthusiasm, there will be enormous intensity and energy behind what you do. You will feel like an arrow that is moving toward the target-and enjoying the journey.

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Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego-but not until you suffer consciously.

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The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

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When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

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When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.

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If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

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You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The 'waiting to start living' syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.

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Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.

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Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment - the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.

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Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

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If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.

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Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

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The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.

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Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.

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As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.

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Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

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Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.

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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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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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To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now

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When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.

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Right now we are being given the experience we need to raise our consciousness.

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Through allowing, you become what you are; vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the ego perceives itself. Your true nature emerges, which is one with the nature of God.

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That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

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Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of the consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

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The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

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