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Eckhart Tolle Quotes about Identity

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As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

Eckhart Tolle
Pain, Long, Identity

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

Eckhart Tolle
Past, Psychological Needs, Identity
Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.72, New World Library

The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.

Eckhart Tolle
Identity, Patterns, Particular
Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.56, Penguin

Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form.

Eckhart Tolle
Past, Names, Identity
FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 02, 2011

My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle
Identity, Down And, Consciousness
"Interview With Eckhart Tolle". Interview at Omega Institute, www.ecomall.com. Fall, 2003.

A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

Eckhart Tolle
Enemy, Identity, Groups
Source: rayhemachandra.com

Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.

Eckhart Tolle
Long, Identity, Groups
Source: rayhemachandra.com

The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.

Eckhart Tolle
Pain, Identity, Body
Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.37, New World Library

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual, Cutting, Identity
Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.25, Penguin

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual, Teacher, Identity
Source: www.inner-growth.info

Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or a little wave if you're a VIP - and the ripple doesn't become enlightened until it realizes that its ripple-identity is ultimately a misperception, that it is the ocean taking on a fleeting ripple-form.

Eckhart Tolle
Ocean, Identity, Vip
"Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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.

Eckhart Tolle
Lying, Ego, Identity
Source: rayhemachandra.com

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

Eckhart Tolle
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.

Eckhart Tolle
Enemy, Identity, Needs
Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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