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Eckhart Tolle Quotes - Page 8

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It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

Creating, Suffering, Looks

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.221, New World Library

Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.

Important, World, Demand

Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.

Order, Perspective, Ego

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.53, Penguin

The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.

Dimensions, Life Is, Moments

Source: rayhemachandra.com

See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Spiritual, Weather, People

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.82, New World Library

Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling place inside you.

Beautiful, Dwelling Place, Giving

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.213, New World Library

If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.

Spiritual, People, Ego

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

Broken Hearted, Emotion, Awareness

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.69, Penguin

When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

Love, Spiritual, Eye

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

Mind, Unhappiness, Conditioning

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.34, New World Library

When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be present in this moment because you're no longer looking to the next one. Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

People, Expectations, Secret

FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Aug 20, 2010

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Coffee, Opportunity, Thinking

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

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

Inspirational, Spiritual, Thinking

Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.17, New World Library

When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises.

Grateful, Accepting, Arise

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

Spiritual, New Earth, Resent

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.57, Penguin

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?

Spiritual, Believe, Reality

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.31, Penguin

The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement. The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

Spiritual, Acceptance, Thinking

Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

Inspirational, Loving Life, Hard Times

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

Life, Spiritual, Differences

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.177, New World Library

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Life, Wisdom, Peace

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.52, New World Library

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

Memories, Past, Giving

Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.31, New World Library

When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect.

Thinking, Mind, Depth

Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment - the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.

Thinking, Breathing, Keys

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.150, Penguin

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

Suffering, Needs, Able

The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.

Time, Essence, Suffering

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.52, New World Library

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