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Mind Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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When you feel a tight knot in your chest, Eckhart Tolle says it is the body echoing the mind’s hidden thoughts. He warns that identifying with every thought builds an ego that can take over life. He also reminds us that spacious stillness lets the mind step back, keeping problems from ruling us.

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Wake up. Get out of your mind. Be present.

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“So give up waiting as a state of mind.”

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“You are not your mind”

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All problems are illusions of the mind.

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“an emotion is the body’s reaction to your mind. What”

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This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

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

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You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

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Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

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If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

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

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If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.

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Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where…

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When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the…

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Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might…

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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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As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind.…

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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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As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start…

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Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present…

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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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There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling…

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Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There's a vast spaciousness.…

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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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Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and…

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Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is…

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To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts…

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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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Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say,…

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“Mind, in the way I use the word, is not just thought. It includes your emotions as well as all unconscious mental-emotional…

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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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Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can…

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“In fact, the harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain. The mind can never find…

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Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is…

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Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from…

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The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

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

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Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

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

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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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