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Action Quotes by Eckhart Tolle
- Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual…
- When you are in touch with that dimension within yourself-and being in touch with it is your natural state, all your actions and relationships will…
- With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where…
- Ask yourself what problem you have right now. Not next year, tomorrow or five minutes from now. You can always cope with the now, but…
- The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.
- Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking…
- When you feel confused or burdened by problems focus on THIS INSTANT and ask yourself: WHAT PROBLEM DO I HAVE RIGHT NOW? You will find…
- Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate
- As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.
- When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.
- As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you…
- Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to…
- So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.
- To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on.…
- Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is…
- Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts…
- You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance,…
- As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act…
- To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When…
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- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle