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Identity Quotes by Eckhart Tolle
- To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.
- The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with…
- Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room. The inner body…
- My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.
- To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment
- Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that…
- As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.
- The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are…
- You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now…
- Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it…
- Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is…
- When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are…
- Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity
- Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.
- ...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
- 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,…
- The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in…
- I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems” because they are…
- There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your…
- Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do…
- Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let…
- To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an…
- People..aggressively defend their..views, because they identify themselves with their mind..once people dis-identify themselves from the mind, they then can express their feelings and views without…
More Identity Quotes
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity. — Arthur Ashe
- What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman
- I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
- Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. — Jean Baudrillard
- Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two… — Ambrose Bierce
- It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped… — Mary J. Blige
- I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or… — Edward de Bono
- We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff… — Ray Bradbury