People Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

— Eckhart Tolle

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

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Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

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I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore".

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"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all…

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Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.

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Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

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In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong…

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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is…

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Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen…

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Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to…

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Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people.…

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For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness…

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The world is in such a mess because of the continuous conflict that arises between human beings - not only between individuals…

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“Many people don’t realize until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to…

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And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't…

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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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Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more…

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The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have…

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I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes…

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Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to…

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To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic,…

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Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is.…

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Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can…

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Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who…

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Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

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The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.

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The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being…

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"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.

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Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

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Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.

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

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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

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Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.

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Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!

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Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

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People look to the future for salvation, but the future never arrives.

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In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous…

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Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.

— Eckhart Tolle