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Nature of man Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

43 Nature of man quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle warns that the ego keeps humanity stuck in pain. He says we must awaken our mind and move beyond endless thinking. The goal is to evolve, not just create art or technology. He also notes that the human mind often cuts reality into tiny pieces, making us miss the bigger picture.

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“Humans are a dangerously insane and very sick species.”

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Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.

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Every human being in the human form has limitations.

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You are this universe experiencing itself, very briefly, as a human.

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Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.

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You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.

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The human condition: lost in thought.

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The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

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Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity…

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The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

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The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

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... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

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So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest…

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Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake.

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The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think…

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Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is…

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“If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are -- the Being…

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A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with…

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If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least…

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Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree…

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As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is…

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Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the…

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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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Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its…

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When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is…

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“Now they are engaged in destroying nature and the planet that sustains them. Unbelievable but true. Humans are a dangerously insane and…

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People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the…

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But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole…

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Every individual is in touch with the deeper level of being, the aware consciousness. If these humans form groups, they do not…

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When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego.…

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“Thinking that is not rooted in awareness becomes self-serving and dysfunctional. Cleverness devoid of wisdom is extremely dangerous and destructive. That is…

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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 next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can…

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There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now…

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One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in…

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Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces,…

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The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet…

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I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego.…

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To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take…

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I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness…

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“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most…

Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of…

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

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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