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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
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.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
Written by Eckhart Tolle
The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
You are not a problem that needs solving.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
Written by Eckhart Tolle
Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
Written by Eckhart Tolle

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