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Essence Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

42 Essence quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle explains that our inner essence shows up when we feel it in others. He says that doing something now is more fulfilling than just having a goal, especially after loss. He also reminds us that love and beauty stay with us even when outer forms change.

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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

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The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence…

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Because we all carry the Truth within us as our essence, we recognize it immediately.

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“The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never lose touch with…

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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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Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.

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Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity

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Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

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Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence.…

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In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the…

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Something inside you emerges…an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what…

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When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it joy because that's…

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Christ is your God-essence or the Self, as it is sometimes called in the East. The only difference between Christ and presence…

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When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely…

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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 goal has its importance. But the doing is what is truly fulfilling. Every enthusiastic person has a goal that may be…

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The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present…

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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 are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say,…

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Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of…

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When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something…

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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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Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source,…

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To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history,…

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The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why…

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Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence…

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And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

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God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond…

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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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The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can…

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Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it…

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In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence…

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When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no…

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The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is…

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You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and…

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At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves…

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This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified…

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Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the…

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Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought,…

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Space really means the level of awareness or presence, not thinking. So, can you look at your partner and not think? Two…

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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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To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That…

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.

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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