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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 22

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The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that's what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what is it that is required now so that life can express

The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that's what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what is it that is required now so that life can express itself more fully?

Acceptance, Negativity, Moments

To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.

Alertness Is, Degrees, Needs

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

Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment.

People, Mind, Needs

"Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

Spiritual, Powerful, Mean

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.75, Penguin

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

Power Of Now, Conscious

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.159, New World Library

The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them again, where we're both in no-thought. There's a deep connection.

Animal, Thinking, Connections

Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.

Real, Two Of Me, Self

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.4, New World Library

Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease, the background static, see in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life-by denying the Now.

Spiritual, Mind, Inward

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.77, New World Library

To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness.

Past, Essence, Knowing

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.

Trying, Fundamentals, Consciousness

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.23, Penguin

You are not a problem that needs solving.

Needs, Problem

If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.

World, Want, Consciousness

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.159, New World Library

You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow out, you won't even know that you have it. This includes abundance.

Thinking, Giving, Deep Thought

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.146, Penguin

Many adults play roles when they speak to young children. They use silly words and sounds. They talk down to the child. They don't treat the child as an equal. The fact that you temporarily know more, or you're bigger does not mean the child is not your equal.

Children, Silly, Mean

So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.

Real, Thinking, Challenges

"Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

Pain, Addiction, Cover Ups

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.152, New World Library

The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.

Spiritual, Thinking, Climbing

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.51, New World Library

Ego is an immature stage of development for humans, and that's what it will be recognized as when the consciousness changes on the planet. Children will develop an ego and quickly outgrow it. That's very different from developing an ego and being stuck with it for the rest of your life.

Children, Ego, Immature

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

Inspirational, Spiritual, Business

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

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Pain, Joy, Enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.154, New World Library

So really what it comes down to, it's God. Wherever you look, it's God appearing as this, that, that...and what you really love and appreciate in each form is the divine formless out of which each form comes. But to be able to sense that you have to sense it in yourself first. And that is seeing the beauty in everything, that's really what it means.

Mean, Appreciate, Looks

FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Feb 02, 2011

When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.

Dream, Motivation, Nightmare

Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.

Technology, Dysfunction, Madness

Source: rayhemachandra.com

The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.

Romantic Love, Romance, Love Relationship

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.150, New World Library

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

Flames, Mind, Sun

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.119, New World Library

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