Eckhart Tolle Quotes

“Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.”

Thinking Way Feelings Happens Accepting Acceptance Happenings Deeper Dimensions Timeless

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“Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness of this moment. You can argue with it, but that's suffering.”

Way Moments Reality Suffering Arguing

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“When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same as when major things seem to go wrong in your life and there is upset.”

Seems Majors Upset Mechanism Minors Reacting Minor Things

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“By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events.”

Stills Happens Action Accepting Events Needed Small Things

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“Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.”

Littles Challenges Sleep Deeper Awake Again And Again You Again

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“You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve.”

Want States Spiritual Achieve Enlightenment Seeking Seekers Fallacy

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“The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.”

Moments Form Present Moment

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“The difference between you, if you consider yourself not enlightened, and an enlightened master is not that the enlightened master has more knowledge. University professors have knowledge, and many enlightened masters have very little knowledge. Jesus probably had less knowledge than any university professor alive today in terms of raw information. Even a relatively uneducated person has more information than Jesus or Buddha ever had about things, such as political things and so on.”

“Some people say it is hard to live in such a way, being completely one with the present moment. Of course, it is not hard. The opposite is hard. Not being one with life is hard, and that is how most people live.”

People Way Hard Moments Life Is Courses Opposites Present Moment Life Is Hard

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“The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.”

Way Mind Humans Hard Seems Strong Easy Habit Patterns Human Mind Very Strong Easy Way Hard Way

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“Whatever you do in your business comes out of a state of inner alignment with life and the source of life itself, so peace flows into whatever you do.”

States Source Flow Alignment Source Of Life

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“An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want the future more than the present. Whenever you want the future more than you want the present, true intelligence cannot flow into what you do, because it can do so only when you are totally aligned with the present moment.”

Want Persons Moments Can Do Concerned Flow Making Money Enlightened Present Moment True Intelligence

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“Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.”

Trying Phones Driving Inevitable Daily Life

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“The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment.”

Looks Kind Moments Next Ego Fulfillment

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“If you are trying to get from here to there, and you already are late, you know that you are late, and yet you are aligned with the present moment while you are stuck in a traffic jam. You are totally accepting of the moment.”

Ifs Knows Trying Moments Accepting Late Stuck Present Moment Traffic Jam Traffic Jam

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“Let's say you have to catch a plane, and you are packing your suitcase and moving fast. Most people would call that stress. Most people live stressed like that all the time.”

People Moving Stress Planes Stressed Suitcases Packing Moving To Fast

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“Even running to catch a train or a taxi, you can enjoy the high energy of the moment.”

Moments Running Energy Enjoy Train Taxi High Energy

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“People are amazed to realize they can enjoy the moment rather than be stressed by it when hurrying to an appointment. You can enjoy the energy movement of the moment when you do not have a mental projection of a future moment you need to get to. You still know that you need to get there, but it is the secondary consideration.”

People Knows Needs Stills Moments Energy Enjoy Realizing Movement Consideration Amazed Projection Stressed Appointments Hurrying

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“Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life.”

Mean Stress

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“Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!”

People World Courses This World Bored Stressed

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“Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.”

People Jobs Stuck Bored Stressful Tedious

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“Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!”

Ifs World Successful This World Bored Stressed

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“Stress is a form of suffering.”

Form Suffering Stress

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“Stress is extremely harmful to the body.”

Body Stress

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“Even in a moment of stress, you can say, "OK, can I enjoy the doing itself? Can I enjoy the flow of energy of this moment?" And of course you can!”

Moments Courses Energy Enjoy Flow Stress

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“The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.”

May Energy Flow Peaceful Alignment High Energy

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“Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. A good little pointer toward that is to ask yourself, "What is my relationship with the present moment? How am I relating to it?"”

Littles Moments Asks Importance Primaries Present Moment Pointers

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“Whatever you want to achieve is secondary: the business, the exchange of information, whatever it may be. Yes, you do that also, but there is a deeper foundation - meeting that human being in a state of shared presence.”

Want Humans May States Human Beings Achieve Information Foundation Meetings Deeper

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“Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.”

People Moments Greater Flow Ease Present Moment

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“As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego.”

Needs Mind Children Persons Names Ego

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“When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours"; or, "My dad is stronger than yours." Children identify with this or that, trying to build up a sense of self - a mentally defined sense of self.”

Trying Children I Can Self Can Do Car Dad Bigger Stronger My Dad Defined Sense Of Self I Can Do This

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“So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.”

Humans Has Beens Cases Ego Stuck

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“On the new Earth, as the awakened consciousness comes in, I would say the ego would develop in children and quickly become outgrown when they reach adulthood.”

Children Earth Consciousness Ego Adulthood Awakened New Earth

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“Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.”

Thinking Mind Humans Doe Reality Bits Pieces Cutting Tree Good And Bad Bits And Pieces Thinking Mind

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“The thing that gives you power also traps you.”

Giving Traps

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“We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other.”

World Whole Fighting Stage Madness Finals Whole World Fighting Each Other

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“Some groups and individuals still are immersed totally in the egoic consciousness. Others already are free or in the process of stepping out of ego. The arising of the new consciousness already has started for many people. They are not yet recognizable as groups, but they are here and there.”

People Stills Individual Process Consciousness Groups Ego Here And There Groups And Individuals

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“I sometimes get a distorted view of how quickly humans are evolving, because I meet many people who are evolving beyond ego. Then I have to switch on the TV to realize, "Oh, no, it is not happening to everybody yet." But it is happening.”

People Humans Sometimes Realizing Views Tvs Ego Happenings Evolve

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“To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.”

Humans Whole Happens Human Beings Planets Collectives Linked Human Psyche

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“Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.”

Long Individual Groups Identity Defined Enlightened

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“If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group.”

Ifs Looks Might Lying Individual Groups Identity Ego Losing

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“There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.”

Force Behinds Example Bases Profit Enlightened Association

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“In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost.”

People Giving Facts Together Energy Fields Enormous Collectives Helpful Boost Energy Fields

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“I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego came back. It has happened, for example, to some spiritual teachers. At some point in their lives, they began to identify again with form.”

People Spiritual Form Cases Teacher Happened Example Ego Spiritual Teachers

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“People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images.”

People Form

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“I enjoy going to Starbucks, having a cup of coffee, sitting in my car, driving from here to there, sitting at home looking at the trees, going for a walk with a dog. It's all very enjoyable.”

Home Enjoy Walks Tree Dog Car Sitting Coffee Driving Cups Enjoyable Coffee Cup Starbucks Car Driving

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“The problems that we are facing are multiplying on the planet - economic, environmental, social, political upheaval, the list goes on. It's a time of change and transition and, as I see it, we are entering a new state of consciousness. It's a transition between one state of consciousness and another. It's an evolutionary leap that is happening.”

States Problem Political Social Consciousness Economic Planets Goes On Happenings Environmental Lists Leap Transition Entering States Of Consciousness Upheaval Multiplying

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“There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet.”

Ifs Needs Humans Happens Humanity Human Beings Consciousness Planets Ready

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“I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.”

World Kind Different States Humanity Consciousness Optimistic Different Kinds States Of Consciousness

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“On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness.”

Knows Self Body Levels Consciousness Who I Am Psychological Timeless

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