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Life Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

241 Life quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization obsessed with form. The quotes urge you to accept each present moment and work with it, not against it. When you quiet the mental chatter, stillness brings peace and opens space for new possibilities.

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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

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The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.

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Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.

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Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

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If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me

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Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

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The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.

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“Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.”

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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.

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When you live as a friend of the now, many changes come into your life.

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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

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“All life-forms need obstacles and challenges in order to evolve.”

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Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

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You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

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True communication is communion-the realization of oneness, which is love.

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“Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is true prosperity.”

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Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

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When you are aligned with the now internally, when you take responsibility for this moment, then life is helpful and tends to…

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If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

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The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being…

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To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of…

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“psychological time, which is the mind’s deep-seated habit of seeking the fullness of life in the future where it cannot be found…

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Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.

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Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of…

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Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the…

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To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no…

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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three…

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Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you…

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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…

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Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with…

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Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here…

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When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with…

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“How easy it is for people to become trapped in their conceptual prisons. The human mind, in its desire to know, understand,…

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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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“Nothing makes sense anymore, because all the meaning and purpose that life had for them was associated with accumulating, succeeding, building, protecting,…

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“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.…

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When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor…

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“Why is [the now] the most precious thing? Firstly, because it is the only thing. It’s all there is. The eternal present…

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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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To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic,…

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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.

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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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