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Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.
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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Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.
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The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.
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What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.
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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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Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.
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Die before you die and find that there is no death.
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Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.
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Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'
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If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.
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Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender to what is. Some people may need more of that than others. If you choose presence in your daily life you may not need the drastic challenges.
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That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space...it is also within you.
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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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