Eckhart Tolle Quotes About Power Of Now
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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
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Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.
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◦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is
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Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?
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If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
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See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
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Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.
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The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
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The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.
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You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God
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If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.
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Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.
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Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.
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You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
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The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.
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Die before you die and find that there is no death.
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Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
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Forgive yourself for not being at peace.
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The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.
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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
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Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself
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You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.
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I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.
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Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
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All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
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