The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence. Eckhart Tolle More Quotes by Eckhart Tolle More Quotes From Eckhart Tolle Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself. Eckhart Tolle loving-yourself love-yourself essence Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'. Eckhart Tolle powerful happiness inspirational The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways. Eckhart Tolle stars beautiful way Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom. Eckhart Tolle freedom voice knowing If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me Eckhart Tolle spiritual inspirational life When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. Eckhart Tolle power-of-now dysfunction mind Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are. Eckhart Tolle realising people fall Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word. Eckhart Tolle new-earth awakening knows You are the knowing, not the condition that is known. Eckhart Tolle stillness-speaks conditions knowing To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary. Eckhart Tolle denial recognition attention When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation. Eckhart Tolle space problem rooms You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present. Eckhart Tolle understanding mind thinking Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking. Eckhart Tolle creativity states thinking Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness Eckhart Tolle emotion unhappy stories To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment. Eckhart Tolle that-moment moments thinking 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. Eckhart Tolle flames challenges people As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power. Eckhart Tolle spiritual-power spiritual action Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel. Eckhart Tolle substitutes ego feels Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents. Eckhart Tolle moments attention giving 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. Eckhart Tolle dream inspirational life
