How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

Eckhart Tolle

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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

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Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room. The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never lose touch with it.

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Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek to become free or desire or “achieve” enlightenment. Become present.

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Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.

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This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens. by Eckhart Tolle

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

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To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

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A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

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Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner st... by Eckhart Tolle

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

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For what you do to others, you do to yourself. by Eckhart Tolle

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

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Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

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If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

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Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

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Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give... by Eckhart Tolle

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

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The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness. by Eckhart Tolle

The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.

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Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.

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Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

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When listening to another person, don't just listen with your mind, listen with your whole body. Feel the energy field of your inner body as you listen.That takes attention away from thinking and creates a still space that enables you to truly listen without the mind interfering. You are giving the other person space-space to be. It is the most precious gift you can give.

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We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

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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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