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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 43

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When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence

When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.

Loss, Opportunity, Essence

Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

Teaching, Favorite Places, My Favorite

Source: home.online.nl

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

Giving Up, War, Realizing

Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.63, New World Library

I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also complete stillness; there's no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There's simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that's beautiful.

Beautiful, Two, Perception

The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn't. And while your happy moments may be rare, your dog celebrates life continuously.

Dog, May, Problem

Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.68, New World Library

When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.

Suffering, Unhappy, Problem

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.122, New World Library

You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.

Silence, Serenity, Moments

Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.

Fighting, Light, Darkness

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.160, New World Library

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Looks, Rooms, Born

Twitter post from Oct 13, 2009

Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of the enormous power of life itself-true intelligence, which only comes when you stop obstructing the power of the present moment.

Expression, Moments, Accepting

That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially dangerous for spiritual teachers who only have contact with disciples or followers, who may live in an ashram.

Spiritual, Teacher, People

Source: rayhemachandra.com

If you are trying to get from here to there, and you already are late, you know that you are late, and yet you are aligned with the present moment while you are stuck in a traffic jam. You are totally accepting of the moment.

Trying, Jam, Moments

Source: rayhemachandra.com

There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.

Transformation, Consciousness, Uncertain

Source: rayhemachandra.com

If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and in two minutes he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and a separate entity out of it.

Spiritual, Writing, Two

If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

Spiritual, Dysfunction, Growth

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

Silence, Sound, Mindfulness

Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.

Spiritual, Focus, Attention

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.64, New World Library

When Doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of being, that is success

Success, Quality, Timeless

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.165, Penguin

When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.

Flower, Tree, Add

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.84, New World Library

A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it.

Planets, Species

Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.34, Penguin

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

Stress, Worry, Anxiety

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.61, New World Library

When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.

Dimensions, Consciousness, Witness

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.19, New World Library

Being is central, and Being is now. The fulfillment of your life is not going to happen through anything. The outer activities in your life are secondary. What is Primary is Being.

Life Is, Fulfillment, Happens

God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.

Essence, Form

"What Is God? Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson and Other Leaders Give Their Definition". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.

Essence, Silence, Sound

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.137, Penguin

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