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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 39

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The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

Ego, Want, Satisfaction

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.41, Penguin

Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.

Simple, Profound, Joy

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.59, Penguin

Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.

Jobs, People, Bored

Source: rayhemachandra.com

When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.

Spiritual, World, Surrender

"Morning share: Kim Eng and Eckhart Tolle: Relationships – True Love and the Transcendence of Duality". Interview with Kim Eng, www.patheos.com. January 25, 2013.

Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.

Spiritual, Awakening, Becoming

Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.

Enthusiasm, Dimensions, Blueprints

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.222, Penguin

Feel the Aliveness within your Body. That anchors You in the Now.

Anchors, Body, Feels

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.42, New World Library

Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life.

Stress, Mean

Source: rayhemachandra.com

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Attention, Alertness, Moments

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Insecure, Ego, Defense

Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.28, New World Library

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

Life, Spiritual, Live In The Moment

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

This, too, will pass.

Inspirational, Spiritual

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.139, Penguin

Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

Life, Spiritual, Unique

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.172, Penguin

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

Real, Journey, Steps

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.88, New World Library

The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment.

Spiritual, Knowledge, Long

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

Animal, Essence, Be Kind

Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.102, New World Library

What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace -- and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed" from the Now.

Memories, Thinking, Reflection

To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.

Spiritual, Journey, Mind

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.111, New World Library

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.

Creativity, Creative, Energy

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

The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

Art, Civilization, Mind

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.98, New World Library

The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no isolated things or events. Underneath the surface appearance, all things are interconnected, are part of the totality of the cosmos that has brought about the form that this moment takes.

Buddhist, Cosmos, Events

Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.43, New World Library

The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.

Fullness Of Life, Life Is, Moments

Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one of those present, a monk called Mahakasyapa, began to smile. He is said to have been the only one who had understood the sermon. According to legend, that smile (that is to say, realization) was handed down by twenty-eight successive masters and much later became the origin of Zen.

Beauty, Flower, Eight

No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not absolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or thought.

Mean, Cutting, Reality

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.126, New World Library

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