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Identity Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

67 Identity quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, Tolle says identity can shift like a mask. He talks about consciousness being endless, forgiveness dissolving a victim role, and the little stories we tell ourselves. The focus is on inner awareness and letting go of ego.

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

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...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

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If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's…

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

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

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

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

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“Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’…

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You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means…

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Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on…

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When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of…

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Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are…

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Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room.…

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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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If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation.…

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“Complaining and reactivity are favorite mind patterns through which the ego strengthens itself. For many people, a large part of their mentalemotional…

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Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of…

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Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious…

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For a long time humans probably were in touch on a deeper level with the depths of their being, unconsciously so, the…

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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.…

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When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts,…

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In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body.…

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The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am."…

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“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical…

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“The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same…

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“Surrender — the letting go of mental-emotional resistance to what is — also becomes a portal into the Unmanifested. The reason for…

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“When you look at a tree, you are aware of the tree. When you have a thought or feeling, you are aware…

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“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend…

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

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Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a…

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

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“Every fragment of self-talk is a little story in the head that goes around, and then you look at reality through the…

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“The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts.”

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“The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never lose touch with…

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The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

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On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and…

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"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no…

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When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

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

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you…

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the…

“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…

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.

It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and…

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of…

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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