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Attention Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle teaches that how you do something matters more than the result you want. He urges you to bring full attention to the present moment, where problems fade and gratitude grows. He also warns that a short attention span makes life feel shallow and unsatisfying.

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Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.

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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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Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

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You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

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

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A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

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“Attention is primordial intelligence, consciousness itself.”

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When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never…

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Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still.…

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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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So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of…

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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but…

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Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness…

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We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine,…

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As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

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Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your…

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When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with…

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Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the…

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When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There…

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Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room.…

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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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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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Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your…

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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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Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine…

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So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be…

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Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it…

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Silence is Golden; it has divine power and immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds.…

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Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.

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Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

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How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result…

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Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not…

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Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner…

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What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most…

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When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of…

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True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises…

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Bring your attention to your breathing and realize that you are not doing it. It is the breath of nature. You reconnect…

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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it.…

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When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream,…

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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 out of…

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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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