Eckhart Tolle Quotes About Life
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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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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
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You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
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Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".
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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
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The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're just things that haven't happened yet, things that could happen tomorrow or next week. Listening to unreal problems has another name: worrying. That's what the voice in your head does. It what-ifs. It frets. It agonizes, and you can no longer sense the joy of life.
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Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here to generate consciousness through the activities of daily life, through their interactions with others as well as through "just being."
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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.
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You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.
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The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.
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All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
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Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.
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What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God.
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Leave life alone. Let it be.
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In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.
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It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.
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If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me
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Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
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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.
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Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought
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"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.
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If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.
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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.
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Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.
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