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Psychology Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

218 Psychology quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle explains that identifying with thoughts builds an ego that can take over. He notes that the body often mirrors the mind's activity as emotions, so feeling a tension can reveal a hidden thought. He also says that simply watching the mind lets you step out of its trap.

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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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Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.

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

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Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

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

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“long as they are their mind, what they fear and resist most is their own awakening.”

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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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“The world as it appears to us now is, as I said, largely a reflection of the egoic mind. Fear being an…

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“Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don’t want the present.”

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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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“Most human relationships consist mainly of minds interacting with each other, not of human beings communicating, being in communion.”

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If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your…

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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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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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“An increasingly heavy burden of time has been accumulating in the human mind. All individuals are suffering under this burden, but they…

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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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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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“I was so stunned by this strange realization that my mind stopped. I was fully conscious, but there were no more thoughts.…

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“You mean stop thinking altogether? No, I can’t, except maybe for a moment or two. Then the mind is using you. You…

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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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“Resentment is the emotion that goes with complaining and the mental labeling of people and adds even more energy to the ego.…

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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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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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“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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The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

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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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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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