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Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.

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Eckhart Tolle
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 16
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Ulrich Leonard Tölle
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Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.
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All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.
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Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.
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You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself.
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Form is emptiness, emptiness is form states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.
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Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.
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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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So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.
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The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.
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Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.
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The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live.
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For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced what it means to be conscious without thought, or they have only for very brief instants.
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Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.
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Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.
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The only thing you ever have is now.
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The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.
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When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.
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Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment
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The present moment is all you ever have.
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For what you do to others, you do to yourself.
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