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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person. (Eckhart Tolle)
Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now. View quote
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Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure. View quote
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For what you do to others, you do to yourself. View quote
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The only thing you ever have is now. View quote
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Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted. View quote
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The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one. View quote
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space. View quote
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Where ever you are, be there totally. View quote
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You are not a problem that needs solving. View quote
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality. (Eckhart Tolle)
If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it. View quote
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Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world. View quote
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces. View quote
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living. View quote
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I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor. View quote
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without. View quote
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Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident. View quote
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The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it. Another factor has come in, something that is not of the mind: the witnessing presence. View quote
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Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. View quote
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If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without. (Eckhart Tolle)
If not now, when? View quote
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Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. ... If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction. View quote
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What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly. View quote
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. View quote
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