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Consciousness Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

167 Consciousness quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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Alertness is presented as the doorway to stillness and deeper peace. The quotes explain that stepping out of constant thinking creates a meditative state and a stronger link to the inner body. They also warn that letting the thinking mind dominate can keep you stuck.

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The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.

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“your presence, your consciousness”

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Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.

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“Nobody can act beyond their level of consciousness.”

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Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

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“Attention is primordial intelligence, consciousness itself.”

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The flower of # consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows.

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Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

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Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

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Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

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The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.

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Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

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Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

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Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

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Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.

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The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level…

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The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times.…

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If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

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Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness -…

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People..aggressively defend their..views, because they identify themselves with their mind..once people dis-identify themselves from the mind, they then can express their feelings…

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The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There…

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The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out…

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The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not…

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Ultimately, there is no such thing as "my consciousness," but just the one consciousness and to sense your connectedness with the one…

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You can enjoy the present moment, and you can be aligned with the doing. A different state of consciousness, then, is the…

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“Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple…

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Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your…

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Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening…

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Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic…

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Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine…

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The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event…

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Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who…

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So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be…

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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy…

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Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.

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The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

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“The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness.”

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

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I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force.

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If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.

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On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

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Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.

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Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.

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