Eckhart Tolle (1948)

Eckhart Tolle quotes

• If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.

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• Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

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• It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

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• To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

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• The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

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• The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

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• Every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

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

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• You begin here and now. Give more attention to the present moment then thoughts about your past.

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• You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

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• You can only know yourself in the present moment. Who you are essentially has no past or future.

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• What scares you are your thoughts, not the situation itself. Thoughts can be changed or dropped.

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• As you become aware of the pain body in you, you don't feed it anymore and it begins to diminish.

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• Beyond birth and death, there is eternal life. A blessed Easter to you all.

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• When you are identified with the ego, you are unconscious, spiritually speaking. Becoming aware of the ego is how you awaken.

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• Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

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• All problems are illusions of the mind.

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• Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

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• If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

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