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Story Quotes by Eckhart Tolle
- Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.
- Be alert as you watch a dog at play or at rest. Let the animal teach you to feel at home in the now, to…
- 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…
- To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We…
- When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.
- 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…
- Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness
- every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.
- The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that…
- 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…
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