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“Silence is Golden; it has divine power and immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, and every word. The unmanifested is present in this world as silence. All you have to do is pay attention to it.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Song #Silence #Mind
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“If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Spiritual #Psychology #Cover Ups
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“When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Years #Silence #Alertness
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“A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Comforting #Doe #May
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“As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Giving #Mind #Attention
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“To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Past #Ego #Mind
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“Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#People #Broken #Perception
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“Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Dream #Spiritual #Awakening
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“Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal, and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Flower #Expression #Bridges
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“Ask yourself what problem you have right now. Not next year, tomorrow or five minutes from now. You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future. Nor do you have to. The answer, the strength and the right action will be there when you need it. Not before or after.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Art #Years #Needs
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“If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self mastery tool that keeps realigning me with my higher purpose for living.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Self #Mastery #Tools
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“Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Believe #Positivity #Waiting
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“The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Powerful #Thinking #Over You
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“Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Happiness #Stories #Antithesis
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“Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here to generate consciousness through the activities of daily life, through their interactions with others as well as through "just being."”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Life #Anchors #Just Being
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“Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Enlightenment #Three #Enlightened
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“How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Giving #Important #Attention
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“When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Gratitude #Breathing #Body
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“Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room. The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never lose touch with it.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Lying #Eye #Essence
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“What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Thinking #Space #Awareness
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“Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Light #Mind #Stronger
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“God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Personality #Depth #Dimensions
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“Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Spiritual #Practice #Spiritual Practice
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“Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Suffering #Alchemist #Gold
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“True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Freedom #Past #Negativity
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“The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh. How could humanity have been taken in by this for so long? Above all, know that the ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Life #Taken #Long
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“Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Doe #Earth #Building
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“Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it is - then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Past #Forgiving #Important
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“The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all – from the most simple task to the most complex.”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Acceptance #Simple #Enthusiasm
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“Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind”
-- Eckhart Tolle
#Flames #Mind #Sun
