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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 19

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For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their

For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before.

Spiritual, People, Mind

Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

Moments, Form, Present Moment

Source: rayhemachandra.com

The only thing you ever have is now.

"Eckhart Tolle on How to Find God", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 28, 2012.

On the new Earth, as the awakened consciousness comes in, I would say the ego would develop in children and quickly become outgrown when they reach adulthood.

Children, Ego, Earth

Source: rayhemachandra.com

I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing is to bring the awareness into everyday life, into every little action that you do, into the varied challenges of everyday life.

Meditation, Challenges, Everyday

Source: rayhemachandra.com

You cannot have a desire to surrender because that's non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don't even have a word for it. And I know that openness is there in many people.

People, Desire, Sometimes

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The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.

Mean, Thinking, Errors

When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.

Empathy, Suffering, Gone

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You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.

Stills

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.155, Penguin

The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens. The story of the man whose comment was invariably a laconic "Maybe" illustrates the wisdom of nonjudgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

Spiritual, Men, Facts

Eckhart Tolle (2009). “A New Earth: Create a Better Life”, p.160, Penguin UK

True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.

True Happiness, Related, Conditions

Source: www.meditationblog.com

Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself

Mean, Levels, Power Of Now

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.108, New World Library

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

Rocks, Serenity, Mindfulness

Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.62, New World Library

Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people. Transcendence of the world is to act and to interact without any self-seeking.

Mean, Self, People

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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

Memories, Ego, Mind

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.48, New World Library

After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.

Self, People, Suffering

Source: home.online.nl

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

Trying, Feels

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.36, Penguin

Meditate or spend silent time in nature with your partner. When going for a walk or sitting in the car or at home, become comfortable with being in stillness together. Stillness cannot and need not be created. Just be receptive to the stillness that is already there, but is usually obscured by mental noise.

Home, Car, Together

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.94, New World Library

You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life.

Essence, Names, Depth

Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Responsibility, Unhappy, Three

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.82, New World Library

Leave life alone. Let it be.

Life

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.73, New World Library

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

Past, Psychological Needs, Identity

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.72, New World Library

Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.

Book, Insane, Hallucinations

Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Greatness, Ideas, Ego

Eckhart Tolle (2009). “A New Earth: Create a Better Life”, p.187, Penguin UK

We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.

Flower, Animal, Tree

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.93, Penguin

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