"In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and……" — Eckhart Tolle
"In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same."
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722 Quotes by Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle has 722 quotes on this site.
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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory…
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The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets…
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Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around…
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There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that…
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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for…
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Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the…
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Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It…
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The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink…
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Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.
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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose…
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Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out.…
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The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event…
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More Contradictory Quotes
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men…
— Andrew Carnegie
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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as…
— Kurt Lewin
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women,…
— Margaret Mead
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The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them…
— Marcel Proust
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Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a…
— Annie Besant
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At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter…
— Carl Sagan
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I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap…
— Joshua Reynolds
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