Sense Self Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

11 Sense Self quotes by Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle’s teachings often point toward present‑moment awareness. This concise group of eleven quotes offers a snapshot of his perspective on understanding the self, providing a useful touchpoint for anyone curious about inner clarity.

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

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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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Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep…

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“Let go of excessive thinking and see how everything changes. Your relationships change because you don't demand that the other person should…

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When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours";…

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In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your…

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“There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond…

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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 your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of…

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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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“The first thing to remember is this: As long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot…

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When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

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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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You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the…

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“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…

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Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

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Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.

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It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and…

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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…

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