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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 21

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What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God.

What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God.

Life, Love Is, What Is Love

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.155, New World Library

Even if they don't know it consciously, people can feel when you are making them into a means to an end only. And people are much less likely to do what you want them to do - for example, to buy the car - when they feel you are reducing them into a means to an end.

Mean, Car, People

Source: rayhemachandra.com

An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

Philosophy, Medicine, Mind

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

Giving Up, Defining, Power Of Now

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.76, Penguin

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

Awakening, Moments, Present Moment

Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.

Evolution, Awareness

Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.

Pain, Empathy, Desire

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.203, New World Library

If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.

Spiritual, Mind, Desire

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.117, New World Library

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

Freedom, Past, Psychological Needs

The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.

Littles, Few Words, Stills

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

Drama, Doe, Conscious

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.180, New World Library

The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.

Identity, Patterns, Particular

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.56, Penguin

Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.

Acceptance, Keys, Attention

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.120, New World Library

Feel the energy of your inner body. Immediately mental noise slows down or ceases. Feel it in your hands, your feet, your abdomen, your chest. Feel the life that you are, the life that animates the body. The body then becomes a doorway, so to speak, into a deeper sense of aliveness underneath the fluctuating emotions and underneath your thinking.

Thinking, Hands, Feet

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.21, New World Library

The human condition: lost in thought.

Spiritual, Lost, Human Condition

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

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.

Reflection, Mind, Body

FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 23, 2009

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

Forgiveness, People, Suffering

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.179, New World Library

Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek to become free or desire or “achieve” enlightenment. Become present.

Desire, Enlightenment, Enlightened

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

When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction begins.

Spiritual, Drama, Self

Source: www.meditationblog.com

So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presence power. It generates an energy field in you and around you of a high vibrational frequency. No unconsciousness , no negativity, no discord or violence can enter that field and survive, just as darkness cannot survive in the presence of light.

Light, Negativity, Darkness

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.75, New World Library

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Moments, Live In The Present, Fear Of Death

Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.

Humor, Cutting, Reality

Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.11, Penguin

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

Suffering, Needs, Arise

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet. As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution.

Spiritual, Space, World

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.79, New World Library

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

Waiting, Ego, Misery

Source: www.meditationblog.com

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