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Body Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

45 Body quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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When you read Tolle’s take on the physical form, you get a gentle reminder that the body is a doorway to deeper awareness. These 45 snippets weave his trademark focus on presence with everyday sensations, offering a calm, grounding perspective for anyone curious about the link between mind and flesh.

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Feel the Aliveness within your Body. That anchors You in the Now.

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Stress is extremely harmful to the body.

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An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

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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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Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is…

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Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might…

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It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are…

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Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.

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

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Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It's good for the body and it's good for the soul.

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The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to…

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The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved…

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On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and…

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If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion,…

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The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of…

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There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives…

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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside…

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When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that…

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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and…

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Feel the energy of your inner body. Immediately mental noise slows down or ceases. Feel it in your hands, your feet, your…

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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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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an…

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In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body.…

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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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All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words…

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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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The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought…

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In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present.…

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This is the essence for every human being to realize that who they are, essentially, is far more than the physical body…

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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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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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Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.…

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Some people when I speak of awareness of the "inner body" call it a technique. I would not call it a technique…

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Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions -…

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Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness…

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The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually…

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Hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, then you're present. If they say something challenging and you lose…

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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…

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If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose…

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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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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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