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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 5

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Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

Mean, Acceptance, Moments

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.178, Penguin

You can be effective in this world without stress.

Stress, World, This World

Source: rayhemachandra.com

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

Spiritual, Get Well, Healing

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.23, Penguin

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

Believe, Flower, Cells

...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

Two, Unhappy, Getting What You Want

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2008.

You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So while your inner purpose is to negate time, your outer purpose necessarily involves future and so could not exist without time. But it is always secondary. Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

Spiritual, Taken, Sight

The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.

World, Sunlight, Whole

Source: www.meditationblog.com

Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.

Joy, Harmony, Heal

To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.80, Penguin

I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it.

Waiting, Want, Said

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

Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of "me" based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.

Mean, Thinking, Self

Source: www.inner-growth.info

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

Spiritual, Truth, Forgotten

FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 20, 2009

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

Spiritual, Ego, Mind

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.51, Penguin

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.23, New World Library

How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.43, New World Library

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

Past, Mindfulness, Absence

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.91, New World Library

Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity.

Simple, Humanity, Purpose

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.158, Penguin

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

Tree, Teach, Stillness

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World”, p.27, New World Library

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

Happiness, Attitude, Giving

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.187, New World Library

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.

Mean, Sacred, States

Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

Matter, Moments, Accepting

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.6, New World Library

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

Life, Yoga, Fall

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.77, New World Library

The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had.

Character, Insight, Knows

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

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Spiritual, Agents, Awareness

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.71, Penguin

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

Judgement, Enlightenment, Three

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.140, Penguin

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