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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 2

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True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment. This inner alignment with Now is the end of suffering. Is suffering really

True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment. This inner alignment with Now is the end of suffering. Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Spiritual, Reading, Humility

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.118, New World Library

If I find here and Now unacceptable, I have three choices: 1-Totally accept it. 2- Change it. 3-Remove myself from the situation. That is taking responsibility for my life.

Responsibility, Choices, Three

The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

New Earth, Ultimate Truth, Ultimate

Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.17, Penguin

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Life, Positive, Spiritual

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

Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Successful, Waiting, Moments

"Thriving in the Now with Arianna Huffington and Eckhart Tolle" by Suza Scalora, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2014.

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

Real, Recognition

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

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Inspirational, Encouraging, Uplifting

"The bedsit epiphany" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.

The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.

Inspirational, Life, Positive

FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Sep 15, 2011

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Cutting, Thinking, Mind

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.83, New World Library

Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.

Inspirational, Gratitude, Appreciation

FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jan 03, 2011

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Inspirational, Letting Go, Spiritual

Twitter post from Jul 26, 2016

You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful. They are as they are. What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance.

Rain, Wind, Might

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.77, Penguin

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.

Spiritual, Thinking, Live In The Moment

Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.8, Penguin

Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.

Positivity, Primaries

Twitter post from Dec 11, 2010

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

Spiritual, Creativity, Joy

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.17, New World Library

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Sadness, Boredom, Feeling Sad

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.19, New World Library

Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

Spiritual, Successful, Mad

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.165, Penguin

Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of 'something' becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.

Two, Piano, Space

Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.7, New World Library

The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Artist, Creative, Survival

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.24, New World Library

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

Ego, Complaining, Strategy

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.50, Penguin

True salvation is freedom from negativity.

Inspirational, Spiritual, Gratitude

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Strength, Spiritual, True Power

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

Ultimately, there is no such thing as "my consciousness," but just the one consciousness and to sense your connectedness with the one (I can sense that continuously, which is why I can say that I know this for sure) to sense that connectedness with the one consciousness that pervades the universe, which in some traditions is called God, to sense that frees you of fear, from anxiety, and takes you to a very deep place of peace, but also of heightened aliveness.

Anxiety, Consciousness, Tradition

Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

Spiritual, Miracle, Forgiving

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.194, New World Library

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Spiritual, People, Waiting

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.86, New World Library

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