Identity Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a…

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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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“Every fragment of self-talk is a little story in the head that goes around, and then you look at reality through the…

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“The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts.”

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A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

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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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The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within…

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If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's…

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Some groups and individuals still are immersed totally in the egoic consciousness. Others already are free or in the process of stepping…

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There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity…

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"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no…

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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 identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation.…

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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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You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means…

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People..aggressively defend their..views, because they identify themselves with their mind..once people dis-identify themselves from the mind, they then can express their feelings…

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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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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.…

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The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am."…

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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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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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Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious…

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“Complaining and reactivity are favorite mind patterns through which the ego strengthens itself. For many people, a large part of their mentalemotional…

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For a long time humans probably were in touch on a deeper level with the depths of their being, unconsciously so, the…

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“The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same…

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“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical…

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“Surrender — the letting go of mental-emotional resistance to what is — also becomes a portal into the Unmanifested. The reason for…

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“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend…

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“When you look at a tree, you are aware of the tree. When you have a thought or feeling, you are aware…

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To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your…

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As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

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...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

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“Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’…

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

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Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.

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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

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The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

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Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness -…

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Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are…

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