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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 13

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What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Insane, Resistance, Power Of Now

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.35, New World Library

In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.

Essence, May, Dimensions

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.13, New World Library

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

Spiritual, Reality, People

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

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

Spiritual, People, New Earth

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

You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.

Argument, Conscious, Can Not

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.182, New World Library

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

Jealous, Envy, Ego

Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.

Thinking, Suffering, Affliction

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

Spiritual, Believe, Philosophical

"A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2005.

All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

Ego, Needs, Feels

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.65, Penguin

Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.

Giving Up, Waiting, Mind

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.87, New World Library

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Alchemist, Suffering, Enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.218, New World Library

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

Mind, Unhappy, Unhappiness

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.107, Penguin

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. 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.

Inspirational, Spiritual, Struggle

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.68, New World Library

One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking.

Thinking, Way, Break

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

Thinking, Happens

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.88, Penguin

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

Mean, Reality, Unconscious

"The new age philosophy of mind over… mind". Interview at Omega Institute, www.newyorktimesbestsellerlist.org. Fall 2003.

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

Journey, Mind, Enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.21, New World Library

Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

Mindfulness, Welcome, Moments

Twitter post from Mar 15, 2010

Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. It also strengthens the immune system and the body’s ability to heal itself.

Heal Itself, Anchors, Ego

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.44, Penguin

Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.

Practice, People, Becoming

Source: www.meditationblog.com

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

Relationship, Pain, Causes

Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.89, New World Library

One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine.

Thinking, Breathing, Way

"The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Paula Coppel, www.eckharttolle.com.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

Spiritual, Freedom, Joy

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.29, New World Library

Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.

Mean, Thinking, Important

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

Inspirational, Happiness, Spiritual

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