"Many adults play roles when they speak to……" — Eckhart Tolle
"Many adults play roles when they speak to young children. They use silly words and sounds. They talk down to the child. They don't treat the child as an equal. The fact that you temporarily know more, or you're bigger does not mean the child is not your equal."
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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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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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