Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth (2005)

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The ego says, 'I shouldn't have to suffer,' and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.

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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

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The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways.

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Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity.

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A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.

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Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?

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Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.

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The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality

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What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.

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Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life.

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Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

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The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

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If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

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What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

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Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.

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When you are in touch with that dimension within yourself-and being in touch with it is your natural state, all your actions and relationships will reflect the oneness with all life that you sense deep within. This is love. Laws, commandments, rules and regulations are necessary for those who are cut off from who they are, the Truth within.

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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

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When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

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A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are it!

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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

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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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Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

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Be aware of your breathing as often as you are able, whenever you remember. Do that for one year, and it will be powerfully transformative. And it's free.

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If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

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The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

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Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.

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Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

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

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We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.

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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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