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Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
Eckhart Tolle
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Eckhart Tolle
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 16
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Ulrich Leonard Tölle
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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.
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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.
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Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
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Through being right, you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.
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Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.
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You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.
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You are this universe experiencing itself, very briefly, as a human.
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Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?
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When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.
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The most powerful state for a human to be in is the state of embracing completely the reality of what is - Now. It is to say Yes to life, which is now and always now. There is a vast power in that Yes, that state of inner non-resistance to what is.
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But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.
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Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.
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Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.
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... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.
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When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.
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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
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Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.
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Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.
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To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.
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