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Awareness Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

70 Awareness quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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A breath that turns a hidden feeling into a body signal illustrates Tolle's idea that unconscious mind activity shows up as emotion in the body. He teaches that body awareness can open a doorway out of the ego, and that feeling often reveals truth more directly than thinking.

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You are awareness, disguised as a person.

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Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

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Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.

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Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

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True Power is within, and it is available now.

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Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.

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“All that is required to become free of the ego is to be aware of it, since awareness and ego are incompatible”

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My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.

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Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

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Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.

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Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

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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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Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we…

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Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes…

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Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen…

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The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old,…

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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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Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to…

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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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Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of…

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Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking. I cannot tell you anything that deep within…

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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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Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle…

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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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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in…

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As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease.…

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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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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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Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

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Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in…

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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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Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.

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Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

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"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

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“You are the light of Presence, the awareness that is prior to and deeper than any thoughts and emotions.”

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Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

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Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of…

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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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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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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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