Eckhart Tolle - A New Earth (2005)

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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.

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

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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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When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

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

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

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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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Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without 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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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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