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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 42

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There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.

There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.

Example, Association, Enlightened

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I was deeply identified with a very unhappy, egoic entity I believed was "me." For years I lived in depression and continuous anxiety. One night I couldn't stand it anymore. The thought came into my mind, "I cannot live with myself any longer."

Night, Years, Anxiety

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You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve.

Spiritual, Enlightenment, Want

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Christ is your God-essence or the Self, as it is sometimes called in the East. The only difference between Christ and presence is that Christ refers to your indwelling divinity regardless of whether you are conscious of it or not, whereas presence means your awakened divinity or God-essence.

Mean, Self, Essence

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.104, New World Library

I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace.

Years, Anxious

"The new age philosophy of mind over... mind". Interview with Jenna Mucha at Omega Institute, www.newyorktimesbestsellerlist.org. Fall 2003.

This is the essence for every human being to realize that who they are, essentially, is far more than the physical body and is far more than the mental body, the psychological makeup, the psychological "me" body. Who they are is far deeper than that.

Makeup, Essence, Body

To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.

Thinking, Needs, Consciousness

Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There's a vast spaciousness. There's a vast stillness and there's a little ripple activity on the surface, which isn't separate, just like the ripples are not separate from the ocean.

Ocean, Perception, Mind

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Let's say you have to catch a plane, and you are packing your suitcase and moving fast. Most people would call that stress. Most people live stressed like that all the time.

Stress, Moving, People

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.

Way, Wonderful, Music Is

Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.

People, Technique, Vipassana

Source: www.meditationblog.com

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

Teacher, Opening, Seems

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Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.

Fall, Sleep, Awakening

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Most humans live in the mindset that this moment is only important because it's getting them to the next one.

Important, Next, Moments

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Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm.

Energy, Enthusiasm, Engaged

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate

Action, Consciousness, Inseparable

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

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.

Children, Writing, People

"Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Cutting, Reality, Thinking

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

If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

Accepting, Situation, Remove

Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.

Humanity, Madness

Source: rayhemachandra.com

Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.

Phones, Trying, Driving

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Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

Loss, People, Needs

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Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Western Culture, Facts, Dimensions

Source: www.soulwise.net

Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity

Essence, Identity, Needs

Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.

Enemy, Identity, Needs

Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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