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Eckhart Tolle Quotes: 18

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
The past has no power over the present moment.
To love is to recognize yourself in another.
Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die"--- and find that there is no death.
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.
All problems are illusions of the mind.
Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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.
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Man made God in his own image...
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.
Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.Let it teach you Being.Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.
The Power of Now
Mind isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose