Buddhism Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

17 Buddhism quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle’s seventeen observations echo his focus on presence while echoing Buddhist insights. The brevity of each line makes the core ideas easy to absorb in a busy day.

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Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment

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“every person carries the seed of enlightenment within,”

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Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all…

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You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of…

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To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain,…

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The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it…

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Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.

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“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful…

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So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

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“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful…

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When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts,…

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Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason,…

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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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The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it…

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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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The Now is as it is because it cannot be otherwise. What Buddhists have always known, physicists now confirm: there are no…

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“Be like a servant waiting for the return of the master,” says Jesus. The servant does not know at what hour the…

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When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

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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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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you…

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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…

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“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…

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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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Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.

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

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