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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 12

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

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

Motivational, Positive, Spiritual

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.144, Penguin

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

Awareness, Persons

True Power is within, and it is available now.

Spiritual, True Power, Awareness

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.45, New World Library

If you don't have a good relationship with the now, you don't have a good relationship with life.

Good Relationship, Ifs

When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.

Mean, Winning, Joy

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.159, Penguin

If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

Love, Life, Family

Where ever you are, be there totally.

Wisdom

"The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1997.

Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.

Cutting, Emotional, Suffering

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

May, Problem, Moments

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.63, New World Library

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Authenticity

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.60, Penguin

Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

Simple, Profound, Flow

Twitter post from Nov 08, 2012

Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?

Past, Thinking, Think Of You

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

Dream, Spiritual, Soul

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.17, New World Library

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'

Growth, Surrender, Happenings

Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.70, New World Library

The present moment is all you ever have.

Inspirational, Motivational, Live In The Moment

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.128, Penguin

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.20, New World Library

The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh. How could humanity have been taken in by this for so long? Above all, know that the ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

Life, Taken, Long

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.45, Penguin

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

Spiritual, Who I Am, Self

Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that.

Priorities, World, Saving

Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real." "Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?,' a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'

Powerful, Real, Inspirational Life

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

Stress, Tears, Splits

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.84, New World Library

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

Spiritual, Cat, Meditation

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.190, New World Library

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe.

Focal Point, Universe

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

Pain, Freedom, Long

Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.74, New World Library

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

Spiritual, Reality, Mind

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.31, Penguin

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