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Religion Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle reminds us that the present moment is the doorway to spirituality. He says awakening can happen even without meditation, and that realizing you are not your thoughts starts the process. He also advises not to take thoughts too seriously and to practice nonattachment.

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

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Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

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A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.

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I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.

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Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.

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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

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I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of…

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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

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You simply have to surrender to the present moment. Be alert. Watch something in a state of alertness. Always, continuously, bring that…

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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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“In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the oldest and most beautiful spiritual teachings in existence, nonattachment to the fruit of your action…

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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.'…

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Every being is a spark of the Divine, or God. Look into the eyes of the dog and sense that innermost core.…

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You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of…

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I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to…

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Although all spiritual teachings originate from the same Source, once they become verbalized and written down they are obviously no more than…

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Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha,…

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The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to…

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A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to…

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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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The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability…

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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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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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Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function.…

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“When I occasionally quote the words of Jesus or the Buddha, from A Course in Miracles or from other teachings, I do…

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“If you both agree that the relationship will be your spiritual practice, so much the better. You can then express your thoughts…

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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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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

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Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the…

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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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Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

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Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the…

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When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the…

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Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.

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Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

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The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.

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A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.

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As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.

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Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

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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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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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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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