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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 35

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Space has no existence. To exist literally means to stand out. You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in itself it has no existence, it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no

Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in itself it has no existence, it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no existence either, nor does the unmanifested.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.138, New World Library

You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.

Stars, Animal, Stones

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.53, New World Library

But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole world loses its aliveness-or, rather, we lose our ability to sense that aliveness, the sacredness of nature. When we approach nature through the conceptualizing mind, we see a forest as a commodity, a concept. We no longer see it for what it truly is, but for what we want to use it as. It is reduced. This is how it becomes possible for humans to destroy the planet without realizing what they are doing.

Reality, Mind, Important

"Beyond Happiness And Unhappiness". Interview with Steve Donoso, thesunmagazine.org. July 2002.

The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways.

Beautiful, Stars, Way

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.125, Penguin

Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.

Love Yourself, Loving Yourself, Essence

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

Mean, Age, Illness

Source: www.soulwise.net

Some people say it is hard to live in such a way, being completely one with the present moment. Of course, it is not hard. The opposite is hard. Not being one with life is hard, and that is how most people live.

Opposites, People, Life Is Hard

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Even in a moment of stress, you can say, "OK, can I enjoy the doing itself? Can I enjoy the flow of energy of this moment?" And of course you can!

Stress, Energy, Flow

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here to generate consciousness through the activities of daily life, through their interactions with others as well as through "just being."

Life, Anchors, Interaction With Others

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.223, Penguin

Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal, and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless.

Flower, Expression, Bridges

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.18, Penguin

If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.

Spiritual, War, Self

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.44, New World Library

"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.

People, Going With The Flow, Action

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.

Mistake, Self, Dysfunction

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.48, New World Library

Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.

Inspirational, Time, Past

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.34, New World Library

Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.

Moments, Humans, Human Beings

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness - into their lives.

Quality, Different, Consciousness

Source: rayhemachandra.com

If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.

Past, Quality, Degrees

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

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.

Mind, Events, Attention

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.94, Penguin

When you live as a friend of the now, many changes come into your life.

Source: rayhemachandra.com

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

Spiritual, Teacher, Identity

Source: www.inner-growth.info

The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.

Peaceful, Energy, May

Source: rayhemachandra.com

To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wonderous dream arises.

Dream, Drama, Ego

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.159, Penguin

Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.

Purpose, Denial, Found

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

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

Giving, Mind, Attention

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.132, New World Library

To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.

Attention, Denial, Recognition

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