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Awakening Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle teaches that true awakening starts by fully accepting the present moment. He points out that the mind’s endless chatter pretends to be us, and stepping away from that voice brings freedom. He also describes awakening as a collective shift, a new evolutionary step for humanity that lights up our inner consciousness.

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Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.

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Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.

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

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Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

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There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.

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You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

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To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

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The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.

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The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to…

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For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness…

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“Nothing is going to make us free because only the present moment can make us free. That realization is the awakening.”

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You are the light of the world. You are the consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that's freedom,…

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For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is…

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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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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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Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening,…

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The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability…

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Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its…

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For some people, it's the beginning of an awakening when they hear or read, "You have a voice in your head that…

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Some people are called upon to do great things externally in this world by creating some new structure that reflects their awakening…

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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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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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So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you…

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For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a…

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Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is.…

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Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because…

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You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

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The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

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The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

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A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.

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When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep,…

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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So,…

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A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and…

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Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why…

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This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some…

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Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness.…

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My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of…

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Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In…

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Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important…

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Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness.…

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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.

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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.

It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and…

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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