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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 26

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When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that

When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

Letting Go, Confusion, Ego

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.66, Penguin

Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining, fear, aggression, or anger. This is important because whenever you complain about what somebody else does you're already beginning to fall into that trap of unconsciousness.

Spiritual, Fall, Negativity

FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Nov 12, 2010

I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. 'You drink alcohol?!' Well, if my state of consciousness is so fragile that a glass of wine would upset it, then it can't be worth very much.

Wine, Glasses, Two

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

Action, Moments, Empowered

Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.14, Penguin

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.

Thinking, Understanding, Mind

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.93, New World Library

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

Ego, Unhappy, Unhappiness

Source: www.meditationblog.com

Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine life essence, the one indwelling consciousness or spirit in every creature, every life-form, recognize it as one with their own essence and so love it as themselves. Until this happens, however, most humans see only the outer forms, unaware of the inner essence, just as they are unaware of their own essence and identify only with their own physical and psychological form.

Love, Essence, Perception

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now

Quality, Shapes, Consciousness

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.60, New World Library

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Reality, Oneness, Looks

Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.92, New World Library

God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.

Personality, Depth, Dimensions

As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives.

World, Consciousness, Surface

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.224, Penguin

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

Knowing, Stillness Speaks, Conditions

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

Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence

People, Roles, Fields

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

I don't pray for anything, but I have used affirmations in the past a few times. They are really a bit more like realizations in that on some level they have already happened.

Past, Realization, Levels

No practice can take you to liberation. That is important to know. It can be a little step that is useful until you realize you don't need it anymore, because after a certain point it becomes a hindrance.

Practice, Important, Needs

Source: www.inner-growth.info

Make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which you are connected to other human beings as well as to the whole. See yourself inspiring countless people with your work and enriching their lives. Feel yourself being an opening through which energy flows from the unmanifested Source of all life through you for the benefit of all.

People, Goal, Energy

The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you.

Creative, Energy, States

Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

Stillness is your essential nature.

Meditation, Essentials, Stillness

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.3, New World Library

When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form.

Mean, Opportunity, Form

Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.

Thinking, Want, Where You Are

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.16, New World Library

In any relationship, especially marriage, be as free of compulsive thinking as possible. In other words, the more space there is in the relationship - inner space - the more love there is because love arises out of the inner spaciousness.

Thinking, Space, Arise

There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now.

Pain, Past, Thinking

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.32, New World Library

If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time.

Spiritual, Attention, Levels

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Space, People, World

"Bad Memories? Eckhart Tolle’s Advice on How to Deal". “Super Soul Sunday“ with Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.

Purpose, Want, Flow

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.164, Penguin

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