"When you drop your expectations that a person,……" — Eckhart Tolle
"When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be present in this moment because you're no longer looking to the next one. Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment."
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722 Quotes by Eckhart Tolle
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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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When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.
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Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
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