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Happiness Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

45 Happiness quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle reminds us that true happiness lives inside us, not in the things we chase. He points out that our thoughts, not the situation, create unhappiness, and that joy is a natural, uncaused feeling that springs from simply being. Seeking happiness, he says, only pushes it further away.

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If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

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Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

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Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

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If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too

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There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With…

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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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If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.

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Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within…

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Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive,…

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I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I…

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“the end justifies the means. But the end and the means are one. And if the means did not contribute to human…

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Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

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“People believe themselves to be dependent on what happens for their happiness. They don’t realize that what happens is the most unstable…

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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate…

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“fed up with being unhappy.” Some people may feel, as I did, that they cannot live with themselves anymore. Inner peace then…

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Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or…

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“Nietzsche, in a rare moment of deep stillness, wrote, “For happiness, how little suffices for happiness!…the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing,…

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The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event…

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Occasionally people would come to me. I was sitting with a woman one day and she was telling me her story and…

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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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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy…

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If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the…

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“Then what is the relationship between something that you do and the state of joy? You will enjoy any activity in which…

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When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes…

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“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.…

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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

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“The affluent world is even more deeply identified with form, more lost in content, more trapped in ego.”

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True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.

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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

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Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

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... there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.

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...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

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“And it is from inner space, the unconditioned consciousness itself, that true happiness, the joy of Being, emanates.”

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True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.

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Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and…

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Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

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The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it…

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Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being. It is an essential part of the inner state of…

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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony…

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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward…

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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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