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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 41

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The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability to channel, to heal, to foretell the future, or other paranormal

The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability to channel, to heal, to foretell the future, or other paranormal powers - all such phenomena are of value and are not to be dismissed, but none of them is in itself indicative of spiritual awakening in a person who experiences them.

Spiritual, Adoption, Misunderstood

Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival.

Spiritual, Religious, Survival

Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.

Acceptance, Thinking, Feelings

Source: rayhemachandra.com

As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.

Children, Names, Ego

Source: rayhemachandra.com

When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours"; or, "My dad is stronger than yours." Children identify with this or that, trying to build up a sense of self - a mentally defined sense of self.

Children, Dad, Self

Source: rayhemachandra.com

It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.

Children, Harder, Universe

"Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". Awaken interview, www.awaken.com. January 7, 2014.

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.

World, Form, Stillness Speaks

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.8, New World Library

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.

Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

Source: www.inner-growth.info

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. A good little pointer toward that is to ask yourself, "What is my relationship with the present moment? How am I relating to it?"

Littles, Moments, Importance

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.

May, Moments, Awareness

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

People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images.

People, Form

Source: rayhemachandra.com

In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost.

People, Giving, Together

Source: rayhemachandra.com

You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself.

Space, Consciousness, Happens

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!

People, Bored, Stressed

Source: rayhemachandra.com

If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group.

Lying, Ego, Identity

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence.

Talking, People, Simplicity

"The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Paula Coppel, www.eckharttolle.com.

Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was affecting the world. I had a sense there was already a book somehow in existence. I drew a circle on a piece of paper and it said "book." Then I wrote something about the effect the book had on the world, how it influenced my life and other people's lives, and how it came to be translated into many languages affecting hundreds of thousands of people.

Book, Circles, People

Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree that humanity, and probably the planet, would not survive for another hundred years if human consciousness remains unchanged.

Technology, Years, Dysfunction

Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

Space really means the level of awareness or presence, not thinking. So, can you look at your partner and not think? Two conscious beings realize that the essence of the relationship is the space in it. Even when there is an egoic overlay, it is not too dense or heavy for you to sense the essence underneath it. You don't need to react to the egoic overlay. When you don't react to it you don't strengthen it.

Mean, Thinking, Essence

Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

Now if a teacher gives you a practice, he or she would perhaps point out when you don't need it anymore or you realize yourself when you don't need it anymore.

Teacher, Practice, Giving

Source: www.inner-growth.info

For some people, it's the beginning of an awakening when they hear or read, "You have a voice in your head that never stops talking. Have you noticed that?" And suddenly they become aware that the thoughts go through their heads, whereas before they were so identified with them that they were those thoughts.

Talking, Voice, People

"The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Paula Coppel, www.eckharttolle.com.

The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.

Years, Consciousness, Hundred

Source: www.soulwise.net

Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.

Expression, Consciousness, Humans

The reality is there is only each present moment: You are called to give a talk. You get out of a building and into a car. You look out of the window. You arrive at the venue. You sit in the chair; you wait; you step out onto the stage. Every movement is simple. There is only that.

Simple, Reality, Giving

"The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Paula Coppel, www.eckharttolle.com.

Whatever you do in your business comes out of a state of inner alignment with life and the source of life itself, so peace flows into whatever you do.

Flow, States, Source

Source: rayhemachandra.com

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