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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 27

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Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function. I'm a spiritual teacher when somebody comes to me and some teaching happens, but the moment

Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function. I'm a spiritual teacher when somebody comes to me and some teaching happens, but the moment they leave I'm no longer a spiritual teacher. If I carry the identity of spiritual teacher, it will cause suffering.

Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

Source: www.meditationblog.com

One conscious breathe in and out is a meditation.

Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Breathe

Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.

Believe, Mean, Negativity

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

Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

Ego, Problem, Ifs

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.38, Penguin

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

Past, Ego, Important

Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.16, Penguin

Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.

Mean, Important, Patterns

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Life, Dance, Dancing

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.79, Penguin

Stress is a form of suffering.

Stress, Suffering, Form

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.

Fear, Needs, World

The goal has its importance. But the doing is what is truly fulfilling. Every enthusiastic person has a goal that may be important, but the doing is intensely fulfilling, and it is the essence of enthusiasm.

Essence, Goal, Important

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

Successful, Bored, Stressed

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Enthusiasm is when the universe creates through you. You are involved in a creative act. You are bringing something new into this world. When that energy comes in, you feel an intense aliveness that flows into what you do. That is enthusiasm.

Creative, Energy, World

Source: rayhemachandra.com

When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the dream of past and future. Such clarity, such simplicity. No room for problem-making. Just this moment as it is.

Dream, Moving, Past

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.44, New World Library

If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

Strong, Taken, Thinking

It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there.

People, Labels, World

Source: www.soulwise.net

When listening to another person, don't just listen with your mind, listen with your whole body. Feel the energy field of your inner body as you listen.That takes attention away from thinking and creates a still space that enables you to truly listen without the mind interfering. You are giving the other person space-space to be. It is the most precious gift you can give.

Thinking, Space, Giving

So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing

Giving Up, Sorry, Waiting

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.87, New World Library

You have so much to learn from your enemies.

Spiritual, Enemy, New Earth

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

With stillness comes the benediction of peace”. “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.

Real, Thinking, Events

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

Thinking, Space, Awareness

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.160, Penguin

Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

Light, Mind, Stronger

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.21, New World Library

If you are not in alignment with the moment, life is a struggle. Really, all you have to do is take responsibility for your inner alignment with now.

Struggle, Responsibility, Life Is

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Whenever you are able, have a "look" inside yourself to see whether you are unconsciously creating conflict between the inner and the outer, between your external circumstances at that moment - where you are, who you are with, or what you are doing - and your thoughts and feelings. Can you feel how painful it is to internally stand in opposition to what is? When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

Giving Up, War, Creating

Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.63, New World Library

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

Balance, Mastery, Life Is

Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

Running, Thinking, Voice

Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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