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Spiritual Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

181 Spiritual quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle reminds us that our thoughts can build an ego that keeps us busy. He says we are already whole, and that feeling the present moment lets a quiet joy rise inside. He also points out that seeing ourselves as part of the universe and accepting each instant can calm desire and fear.

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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

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Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.

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I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

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True salvation is freedom from negativity.

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Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.

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The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.

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Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

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You have so much to learn from your enemies.

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Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

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When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.

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Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

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Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the…

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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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In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

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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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Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in the world.

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That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially…

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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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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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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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Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and…

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For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully…

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A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there…

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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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When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something…

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The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although 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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“Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple…

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If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the…

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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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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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The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance…

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

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

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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

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Become conscious of being conscious.

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The human condition: lost in thought.

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Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.

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True Power is within, and it is available now.

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Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

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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.

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“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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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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