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Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.
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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You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
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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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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
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Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.
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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.
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When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.
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When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest joy is to benobody, to relinquish the function of a teacher. It's a temporary function.
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Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become I.
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The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.
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Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation.
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The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.
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If the thought of lack -whether it be money, recognition, or love has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.
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If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.
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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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Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche
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There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.
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