Buyer Remorse 4793 “You can easily recognize that something is coming from Ego because when you get it, it doesn't satisfy you.” ― Eckhart Tolle

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“You can easily recognize that something is coming from Ego because when you get it, it doesn't satisfy you.”
― Eckhart Tolle

Learn Being 4808 “Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity - which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.” ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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“Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity - which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Forgiveness 4822 “Nonreaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for nonreaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through. You look through the ego to the sanity that is in every human being as his or her essence.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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Unstable 4841 “As I was walking with a friend through a beautiful nature reserve near Malibu in California, we came upon the ruins of what had been once a country house, destroyed by a fire several decades ago. As we approached the property, long overgrown with trees and all kinds of magnificent plants, there was a sign by the side of the trail put there by the park authorities. It read: danger. all structures are unstable. I said to my friend, “That’s a profound sutra [sacred scripture].” And we stood there in awe. Once you realize and accept that all structures (forms) are unstable, even the seemingly solid material ones, peace arises within you. This is because the recognition of the impermanence of all forms awakens you to the dimension of the formless within yourself, that which is beyond death. Jesus called it “eternal life.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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Paradoxically 4848 “Paradoxically, what keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn’t work: The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Create a Better Life

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Waiting 4850 “So give up waiting as a state of mind.” ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment My frustration with waiting can be eliminated by enjoying the wait. Amazing.

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Sanitized Death 4851 “You are only allowed to see a sanitized version of death.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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The Field 4852 “The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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Mind-Set 4853 “War is a mind-set, and all action that comes out of such a mind-set will either strengthen the enemy, the perceived evil, or, if the war is won, will create a new enemy, a new evil equal to and often worse than the one that was defeated.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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Nonattachment 4854 “In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the oldest and most beautiful spiritual teachings in existence, nonattachment to the fruit of your action is called Karma Yoga. It is described as the path of “consecrated action.” ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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Useful But Limiting 4856 “The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.” ― Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks

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This Place This Hour 4857 “Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.” ― Walt Whitman

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Thought Experiment 4862 “Try a little experiment. Close your eyes and say to yourself: “I wonder what my next thought is going to be.” Then become very alert and wait for the next thought. Be like a cat watching a mouse hole. What thought is going to come out of the mouse hole?” ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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Egoic Wanting 4863 “What is commonly called “falling in love” is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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Eternity in No Time 4866 “Eternity, of course, does not mean endless time, but no time.” ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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You Are Not "I" 4867 “What you usually refer to when you say “I” is not who you are. By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords or the thought of “I” in your mind and whatever the “I” has identified with.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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Spiritual Growth 4868 “Many people are already aware of the difference between spirituality and religion. They realize that having a belief system-a set of thoughts that you regard as the absolute truth-does not make you spiritual no matter what the nature of those beliefs is. In fact, the more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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Borrowed Reality 4870 “What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace - and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is “borrowed” from the Now.” ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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Horse Sense 4871 “Real love doesn’t make you suffer.” ― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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Miraculous 4872 “When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Create a Better Life

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Surrender 4877 “Until you practice surrender, the spiritual dimension is something you read about, talk about, get excited about, write books about, think about, believe in — or don’t, as the case may be. It makes no difference. Not until you surrender does it become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy that you emanate and which then runs your life is of a much higher vibrational frequency than the mind energy that still runs our world — the energy that created the existing social, political, and economic structures of our civilization, and which also continuously perpetuates itself through our educational systems and the media.” ― Eckhart Tolle, Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

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Life Itself 4883 “The ego's greatest enemy is the present moment, which is to say, life itself” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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Fueling The Drama 4884 “Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the insanity of the human mind. When you recognize it for what it is, you no longer misperceive it as somebody’s identity. Once you see the ego for what it is, it becomes much easier to remain nonreactive toward it. You don’t take it personally anymore. There is no complaining, blaming, accusing, or making wrong. Nobody is wrong. It is the ego in someone, that’s all. Compassion arises when you recognize that all are suffering from the same sickness of the mind, some more acutely than others. You do not fuel the drama anymore that is part of all egoic relationships. What is its fuel? Reactivity. The ego thrives on it.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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No Past, No Future 4885 “Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.” ― Eckhart Tolle

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Walk Away 4886 “It is true that only an unconscious person will try to use or manipulate others, but it is equally true that only an unconscious person can be used and manipulated. If you resist or fight unconscious behavior in others, you become unconscious yourself. But surrender doesn't mean that you allow yourself to be used by unconscious people. Not at all. It is perfectly possible to say “no” firmly and clearly to a person or to walk away from a situation and be in a state of complete inner nonresistance at the same time.” ― Eckhart Tolle, Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

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