If there is unhappiness in you, first you need to acknowledge that it is there. But don’t say, ‘I’m unhappy.’ Unhappiness has nothing to do with who you are. Say: ‘There is unhappiness in me.’ Then investigate it. Eckhart Tolle
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually. Eckhart Tolle
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To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. Eckhart Tolle
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I am not saying here that helping others, caring for your children, or striving for excellence in whatever field are not worthwhile things to doโฆbut outer purpose alone is always relative, unstable, and impermanent. Eckhart Tolle
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Say yes to life and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you. Eckhart Tolle
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is. Eckhart Tolle
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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. A New Earth Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity. Eckhart Tolle
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Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out? Eckhart Tolle
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Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. 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. Eckhart Tolle
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Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. Eckhart Tolle
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If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what’s left is who you are — the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined. Eckhart Tolle
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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. Eckhart Tolle
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It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists. Eckhart Tolle
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Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind. Eckhart Tolle
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Every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in. Eckhart Tolle
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What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself. Eckhart Tolle
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In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much, and forget about the joy of just Being. Eckhart Tolle
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If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without. Eckhart Tolle
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Many people donโt realize until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that nothing ever had anything to do with who they are. Eckhart Tolle
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In form, you are and will always be inferior to some, superior to others. In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. Eckhart Tolle
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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. Eckhart Tolle
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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose. Eckhart Tolle
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And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role. Eckhart Tolle
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Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. Eckhart Tolle
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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. Eckhart Tolle
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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists. Eckhart Tolle
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If the thought of lack โ whether it be money, recognition, or love โ has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack. Eckhart Tolle
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Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing. Eckhart Tolle
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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. Eckhart Tolle
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The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts. Eckhart Tolle
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Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free. Eckhart Tolle
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Become friendly toward it, welcome it no matter in what disguise it comes, and soon you will see the results. Life becomes friendly toward you; people become helpful, circumstances cooperative. One decision changes your entire reality. Eckhart Tolle
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Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you donโt want the present. Eckhart Tolle
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Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. Eckhart Tolle
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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. Eckhart Tolle
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The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions. Eckhart Tolle
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Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness. Eckhart Tolle
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If there is nothing you can do, face what is and say, ‘Well, right now, this is how it is. I can either accept it, or make myself miserable.’ Eckhart Tolle
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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. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
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How you react to people and situations, especially when challenges arise, is the best indicator of how deeply you know yourself. Eckhart Tolle
Short A New Earth Echart Tolle Quotes
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For what you do to others, you do to yourself.ย Eckhart Tolle
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All problems are illusions of the mind. Eckhart Tolle
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The teacher and the taught together create the teaching. Eckhart Tolle
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Become conscious of being conscious. Eckhart Tolle
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You have so much to learn from your enemies. Eckhart Tolle
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Being must be felt. It can’t be thought. Eckhart Tolle
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Doing is never enough if you neglect Being. Eckhart Tolle
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Become at ease with the state of not knowing. Eckhart Tolle
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Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself. Eckhart Tolle
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Where there is anger there is always pain underneath. Eckhart Tolle
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This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens. Eckhart Tolle
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Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe. Eckhart Tolle
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Awareness is the greatest agent for change. Eckhart Tolle
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Donโt seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions. Eckhart Tolle
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Life flows with ease. A New Earth Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now. Eckhart Tolle
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Awareness and ego cannot coexist. Eckhart Tolle
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This, too, will pass. Eckhart Tolle
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The human condition: lost in thought. Eckhart Tolle
Inspirational Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible. Eckhart Tolle
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Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world. Eckhart Tolle
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The more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer. Eckhart Tolle
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Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness. A New Earth Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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There is no substitute for finding true purpose. But the true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level. It does not concern what you do but what you areโthat is to say, your state of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
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Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind. Eckhart Tolle
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When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilites open up in your life. Eckhart Tolle
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Negativity is never the optimum way of dealing with any situation. Eckhart Tolle
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You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state. Eckhart Tolle
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The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. Eckhart Tolle
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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. Eckhart Tolle.
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One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
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The good news is: If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves.ย Eckhart Tolle
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Trying to become a good or better human being sounds like a commendable and high-minded thing to do, yet it is an endeavor you cannot ultimately succeed in unless there is a shift in consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
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Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life — to allow life to live through you. Eckhart Tolle
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True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found. Eckhart Tolle
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Listening to silence awakens the dimension of stillness within yourself because it is only through stillness that you can be aware of silence. Eckhart Tolle
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Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found. Eckhart Tolle
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Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world. Eckhart Tolle
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Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role. Eckhart Tolle
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Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on. Eckhart Tolle
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When you realize itโs not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were. It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living. Eckhart Tolle
Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. Eckhart Tolle
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How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment. Eckhart Tolle
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The acknowledgment of that abundance that is all around you awakens the dormant abundance within. Eckhart Tolle
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The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.ย Eckhart Tolle
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Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal. Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle Quotes on Love
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The moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace. Eckhart Tolle
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Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance. Eckhart Tolle
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Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself. Eckhart Tolle
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A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. A New Earth Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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Love as a continuous state is as yet very rare — as rare as conscious human beings. Eckhart Tolle
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. Eckhart Tolle
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True communication is communion – the realization of oneness, which is love. Eckhart Tolle
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Knowing the oneness of yourself and the other is true love, true care, true compassion, Eckhart Tolle
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Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the “love” of ego. Eckhart Tolle
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The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance or your partner as he or she is, without needing to judge or change them in any way. Eckhart Tolle
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The intensity with which true love is felt can vary. Eckhart Tolle
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The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be. Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth Ego Quotes (Eckhart Tolle)
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A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. Eckhart Tolle
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Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you. Eckhart Tolle
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If drama has any purpose at all, it is an indirect one: It creates more and more suffering on the planet, and suffering, although largely ego-created, is in the end also ego-destructive.ย Eckhart Tolle
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Ego takes everything personally. Emotion arises, defensiveness, perhaps even aggression. Eckhart Tolle
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Are you defending the truth? No, the truth, in any case, needs no defense. Eckhart Tolle
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Even if blame seems more than justified, as long as you blame others, you keep feeding the pain-body with your thoughts and remain trapped in your ego. Eckhart Tolle
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Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place. Eckhart Tolle
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Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Eckhart Tolle
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I donโt have enough yet, by which the ego really means, I am not enough yet. A New Earth Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. Eckhart Tolle
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Instead of overlooking unconsciousness in others, you make it into their identity. Who is doing that? The unconsciousness in you, the ego. Eckhart Tolle
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Making it in whatever field is only meaningful as long as there are thousands or millions of others who donโt make it, so you need other human beings to fail so that your life can have meaning. Eckhart Tolle
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Nonreaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for nonreaction is forgiveness. Eckhart Tolle
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To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through. You look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence. Eckhart Tolle
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Resentment is the emotion that goes with complaining and the mental labeling of people and adds even more energy to the ego. Resentment means to feel bitter, indignant, aggrieved, or offended. Eckhart Tolle
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The ego could be defined simply in this way: a dysfunctional relationship with the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
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The ego isnโt wrong, it is just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Donโt take the ego too seriously…Above all, know that the ego isnโt personal. It isnโt who you are. Eckhart Tolle
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The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. Eckhart Tolle
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The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist. Eckhart Tolle
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The stronger the ego in you, the more likely it is that in your perception other people are the main source of problems in your life. It is also more than likely that you will make life difficult for others. But, of course, you wonโt be able to see that. Eckhart Tolle
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Being right is identification with a mental position – a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.ย Eckhart Tolle
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When there is stress, it is usually a sign that the ego has returned, and you are cutting yourself off from the creative power of the universe. Eckhart Tolle
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Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, thatโs the ego in you. Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle Quotes on Being Present
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The present moment is all you will ever have. Eckhart Tolle
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Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment. Eckhart Tolle
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Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You canโt argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer. Eckhart Tolle
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As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. Eckhart Tolle
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Beautiful flowers that are not anxious about tomorrow but live with ease in the timeless Now. Eckhart Tolle
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Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is true prosperity. A New Earth Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in โjust beingโ. Eckhart Tolle
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This is most peopleโs reality: As soon as something is perceived, it is named, interpreted, compared with something else, liked, disliked, or called good or bad by the phantom self, the ego. Eckhart Tolle
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life. Eckhart Tolle
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Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness. Eckhart Tolle
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Time isnโt precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. Eckhart Tolle
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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. Eckhart Tolle
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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. Eckhart Tolle
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Let me say it again: the present moment is all you ever have. Eckhart Tolle
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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. Eckhart Tolle
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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Eckhart Tolle
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Once you have decided you want the present moment to be your friend, it is up to you to make the first move: Become friendly toward it, welcome it no matter in what disguise it comes, and soon you will see the results. Eckhart Tolle
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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. Eckhart Tolle
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Allow nature to teach you stillness. When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. Eckhart Tolle
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Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought. Eckhart Tolle
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Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Eckhart Tolle
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You are never fully here because you are always busy trying to get elsewhere. Eckhart Tolle
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With stillness comes the benediction of Peace. Eckhart Tolle
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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 conciousness at this moment is what shapes the future. Eckhart Tolle
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The more you are focused on time–past and future–the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is. Eckhart Tolle
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Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
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How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else. Eckhart Tolle
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Donโt wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success. Eckhart Tolle
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The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. Eckhart Tolle
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Psychological time, which is the mindโs deep-seated habit of seeking the fullness of life in the future where it cannot be found and ignoring the only point of access to it: the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
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What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now. Eckhart Tolle
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When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action. Eckhart Tolle
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Nothing has ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have? Eckhart Tolle
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The past has no power over the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
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The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing. Eckhart Tolle
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To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Eckhart Tolle
New Earth Eckhart Tolle Quotes on Happiness
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I don’t know” is not confusion. Confusion is “I don’t know, but I should know” or “I don’t know, but I need to know.” Eckhart Tolle
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If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. Eckhart Tolle
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Happiness and unhappiness are in fact one. Only the illusion of time separates them. Eckhart Tolle
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Don’t look for peace. Don’t look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. Eckhart Tolle
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Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not. Eckhart Tolle
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Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living. Eckhart Tolle
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If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be spirit, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. Eckhart Tolle
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Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. A New Earth Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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Anything you accept fully will get you there will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender. Eckhart Tolle
Other Quotes from Eckhart Tolle
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Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary. Eckhart Tolle
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Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. Eckhart Tolle
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Resist nothing. Eckhart Tolle
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What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone. Eckhart Tolle
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Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of being. Eckhart Tolle
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Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence. Eckhart Tolle
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Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of consciousness grows strong. Eckhart Tolle
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To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Eckhart Tolle
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Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it. 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. Eckhart Tolle
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All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg. Eckhart Tolle
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Accept this moment as it is. Eckhart Tolle
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All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry–all forms of fear–are caused by too much future and not enough presence. Eckhart Tolle
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Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems. Eckhart Tolle
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Every person carries the seed of enlightenment within. Eckhart Tolle
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Take responsibility for your state of consciousness in the moment. Eckhart Tolle
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Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Eckhart Tolle
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Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary. Eckhart Tolle
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Bring Presence into whatever you do. Eckhart Tolle
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The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness. Eckhart Tolle
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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now. Eckhart Tolle
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It is through the mistakes that the greatest learning happens on an inner level. A New Earth Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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When there is anger, there is always pain underneath. Eckhart Tolle
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Unhappiness is created whenever you are out of alignment with the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
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You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level. Eckhart Tolle
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The moment you start watching your thoughts, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. Eckhart Tolle
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing. Eckhart Tolle
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Unhappiness or negativity is a disease on our planet. What pollution is on the outer level is negativity on the inner. Eckhart Tolle
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The mind always wants to categorize and compare. Eckhart Tolle
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Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be. Eckhart Tolle
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Profound transformation is available now no matter who or where you are. Eckhart Tolle
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Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. Eckhart Tolle
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Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous. Eckhart Tolle
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When you speak out (about a situation you find yourself in), you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness. Eckhart Tolle
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It is inner stillness that will save and transform the world. Eckhart Tolle
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Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them. Eckhart Tolle
Summary
Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and author who has had a profound impact on millions of people around the world. Born in Germany in 1948, Tolle spent much of his early life searching for meaning and purpose, studying various spiritual traditions and philosophies.
Tolle’s spiritual awakening came in his early thirties when he experienced a profound inner transformation that led him to let go of his ego and identify with the present moment. He describes this experience in his first book, “The Power of Now,” which has become a modern classic and has been translated into more than 30 languages.
In “The Power of Now,” Tolle teaches that the present moment is the only reality and that by being fully present and aware in each moment, we can overcome our fears, anxieties, and negative thought patterns. The book has been praised for its simple yet profound teachings and has helped countless people to live more peaceful and fulfilling lives.
Tolle’s second book, “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose,” builds on the teachings of “The Power of Now” and explores the idea that our egoic mind is the source of much of our suffering and that we can overcome this suffering by identifying with our true nature as pure consciousness.
“A New Earth” has been widely praised for its transformative teachings and has been a bestseller since its release in 2005. In the book, Tolle encourages readers to let go of their attachment to material possessions, social status, and other external factors and to focus on inner peace and fulfillment.
In addition to his books, Tolle has also been a popular speaker and teacher, leading retreats and workshops around the world. His teachings have been embraced by people of all backgrounds and religions, and he is known for his ability to communicate complex spiritual concepts in a clear and accessible way.
One of the hallmarks of Tolle’s teachings is his emphasis on the importance of presence and mindfulness. He teaches that we can only find true peace and fulfillment by being fully present in the moment and that our minds are constantly trying to pull us away from the present into thoughts of the past or future.
Tolle’s work has been recognized with numerous awards and accolades, including the prestigious Watkins Mind Body Spirit Award and the Satyagraha Award for promoting peace and nonviolence. He continues to write, teach, and inspire people around the world with his message of spiritual awakening and inner peace.