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Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'
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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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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When the movie comes to an end, you are not totally the same person you are when you started the movie.
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The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.
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Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.
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The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
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Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.
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When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
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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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You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.
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Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.
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Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.
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Thinking is compulsive: you can't stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don't even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable.
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If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all.
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If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.
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I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.
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Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.
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In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.
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Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.
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As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.
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When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.
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