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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 3

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If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

Spiritual, Reality, Survival

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.31, Penguin

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Religious, Knowledge, Ego

"The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2004.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

Inspirational, Life, Death

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.46, New World Library

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

Spiritual, Practice, Spiritual Practice

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.15, New World Library

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Spiritual, Awareness, Power Of Now

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.177, Penguin

You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are - which is now

Yoga, Waiting, Done

FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Dec 29, 2010

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?

Past, Ego, Mind

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.22, New World Library

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

Teach, Stillness Speaks, Stillness

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.5, New World Library

Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond. If you fight it, you're stuck with it.

Fighting, Accepting, Stuck

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Spiritual, Thinking, Joy

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Life, Pick Me Up, Mind

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego-but not until you suffer consciously.

Ego, Suffering, Purpose

The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions.

Over You, Events, Emotion

Source: rayhemachandra.com

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 22, 2009

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

Goal, Stressed, Doing You

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.181, Penguin

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

Pain, Joy, Mindfulness

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

Spiritual, Defining, New Earth

Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.12, Penguin

As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change.

Mean, Action, Infinite

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.166, Penguin

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Giving Up, Mean, Knowing

Twitter post from Jan 04, 2013

You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.

Soul, Littles, Spirit

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

Wisdom, Ego, Suffering

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.72, Penguin

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

Space, Perception, Emotion

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.47, New World Library

You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found that out in your life. And then suddenly when you let go of resistance you let go of an attachment to something: I need this to happen in order to be happy; I don't want what is, I want something else. To be okay with what is, which is the simplicity of this moment, is the beginning of true change.

Letting Go, Attachment, Order

FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Feb 29, 2012

Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.

Spiritual, Keys, New Earth

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.158, Penguin

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

Thinking, Meditation, Different

Twitter post from Apr 08, 2010

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