"Words reduce reality to something the human mind……" — Eckhart Tolle
"Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much."
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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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Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it…
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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of…
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
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The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course…
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the…
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express…
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was…
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But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
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So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked…
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