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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 17

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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

Joy, Mind, Consciousness

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.31, New World Library

Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

Love Is, Oneness, World

Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.50, Penguin

The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.

Inspiring, Moving, Heart

Become conscious of being conscious.

Spiritual, Conscious

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.145, Penguin

Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.

Ego, Humanity, Reaching

Source: rayhemachandra.com

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.

Love Relationship, Doe, Want

Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.91, New World Library

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose

Worry, Challenges, Purpose

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

Spiritual, Thinking, World

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.28, Penguin

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.62, New World Library

Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

People, Secret, Want

It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on those places where there is violent conflict...It gives us a slightly or very distorted view of what is going on because there are many other parts of the planet where there is no violent conflict, but that is not on the news.

Views, Giving, Important

FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Apr 24, 2015

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be Spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. You would immediately accept the situation and thus become one with it rather than separate yourself from it.

People, Challenges, Want

Eckhart Tolle (2009). “A New Earth: Create a Better Life”, p.137, Penguin UK

If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.

Lying, Reflection, Giving

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.26, New World Library

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

Perception, Attention, Shallow

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.174, Penguin

Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

Spiritual, Fear, Real

The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen.

Suffering, Purpose, World

Source: home.online.nl

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

Sometimes, Enlightened, Masters

You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

Believe, Mind, Power Of Now

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.16, New World Library

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

Space, Silent, Embrace

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.85, New World Library

Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

Ego, Substitutes, Feels

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.38, Penguin

Through allowing, you become what you are; vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the ego perceives itself. Your true nature emerges, which is one with the nature of God.

Ego, Fragments, Perceive

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.117, Penguin

Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable.

Thinking, Suffering, Want

Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

Taken, Thinking, People

"The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1999.

When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.

Years, Silence, Alertness

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

People, Expectations, Looks

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