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Thinking Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

115 Thinking quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle says that clinging to thoughts builds an ego that runs out of control. He points out that when you become alert, thinking quiets and a calm state appears, like meditation. He also warns that compulsive thinking is a way to dodge the present moment, turning the mind into an addictive habit.

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“If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn’t even know you are thinking.”

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Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?

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Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

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How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?

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Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

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Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.

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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

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Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

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The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out…

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It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose…

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We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by…

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What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious…

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Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least…

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One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of…

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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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Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

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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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Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking…

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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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When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are…

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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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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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“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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Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict…

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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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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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Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more…

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“What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember…

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Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because…

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For many years I had been deeply identified with thinking and the painful, heavy emotions that had accumulated inside. My thought activity…

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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

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Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

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You create a good future by creating a good present.

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Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

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Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.

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

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The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we…

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Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually…

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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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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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