eckhart-tolle Quotes About form

“Once you realize and accept that all structures (forms) are unstable, even the seemingly solid material ones, peace arises within you. This is because the recognition of the impermanence of all forms awakens you to the dimension of the formless within yourself, that which is beyond death. Jesus called it "eternal life.”

Life Form Peace

Book:A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.”

Soul Form Consciousness Essence Who You Are

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“You take a journey into the Unmanifested every night when you enter the phase of deep dreamless sleep. You merge with the Source. You draw from it the vital energy that sustains you for a while when you return to the manifested, the world of separate forms.”

World Form Night Energy Sleep Journey Source Return Draws Every Night Phases Dreamless Sleep

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.”

Form Essence

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.”

Thinking Way Mind Moments Form Emotion Accepting Awareness Conscious Arguing Stillness Replaced Recognizing Compulsion Identification Labeling

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Every human being in the human form has limitations.”

Humans Form Human Beings Limitation Human Form

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?"”

Mind Humans May Form Meditation Months Sitting Limitation Human Form

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I sometimes say animals are closer to God than humans. They are closer to the source. The humans are more lost in the mind forms. Being is more obscured to the human because of the overlay of ego and mental formation.”

Mind Humans Sometimes Form Lost Animal Source Ego Formation

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form.”

Mean Form Opportunity Who You Are

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.”

Happens Form Suffering Opportunity Realizing Loss Dying Essence Who You Are Identification Great Loss Approaching Death

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“When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.”

Ifs Humans Form Suffering Levels Gone Share Havens Empathy Dissolving Human Form

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions - what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver.”

Looks Heart Doe Body Form Suffering Function Stress Your Body Immune Liver Circulation Immune System

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“Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.”

World Form Suffering Normal Stress Accepted Our World

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“There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.”

Knows Stills Form Consciousness Planets Transformation Determine Factors Uncertain Our Planet Nobody Knows

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“It is quite possible even that the planet would no longer be able to sustain human life. Probably, the planet eventually would regenerate and produce some other life form. Consciousness would flow into some other life form and express itself through that, whatever that would be.”

Humans Would Be Able Form Consciousness Produce Planets Flow Human Life

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Every individual is in touch with the deeper level of being, the aware consciousness. If these humans form groups, they do not derive their sense of self from the group, which does not mean there cannot be a sense of being part of this group. But the group itself does not become an egoic entity.”

Ifs Humans Mean Doe Self Form Individual Levels Consciousness Groups Deeper Entity Sense Of Self

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“People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy and spiritual power that comes through a teacher, especially in a teaching situation, has nothing to do with that person.”

People May Persons Spiritual Form Energy Realizing Situation Teacher Teaching Enormous Spiritual Power

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.”

Ends Happens Form Ego Unhappy Unhappiness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.”

Mind States Whole Moving Form Suffering Movement Ego Unhappiness State Of Mind Back And Forth Flux Moving Back

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life.”

Needs Whole Form Names Realizing Essence Who You Are Depth Timeless Power Of Now

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.”

People Mind Spiritual Form Suffering Teaching Cracks Shells Readiness Spiritual Teaching

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.”

Mean Age Form Possibility Illness Old Age Dissolution

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.”

Faces Form Consciousness Shining Violent Psychological Make Sense Dissolution Violent Death

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Death is the moment of form dissolving. When that dissolving is not resisted, an opening appears into the dimension of the sacred, into the One formless, unmanifested Life. This is why death is such an incredible opportunity. There is no transformation of human consciousness without the dissolving that death brings.”

Humans Moments Form Opportunity Consciousness Transformation Sacred Incredibles Opening Dimensions Human Consciousness Dissolving

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God.”

Form Realizing Who You Are Opening Psychological Finding Yourself

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“People believe that when they say "yes" to this moment, things won't change anymore. They're afraid that if they accept what is, whatever form this moment takes, they're going to be stuck forever in this moment that they don't like: this job or relationship or whatever situation they're in that they don't like. But this is not true.”

People Ifs Believe Moments Jobs Form Situation Accepting Forever Stuck

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred.”

World Form Essence Sacred Grass Blades Blades Of Grass Deathless

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“A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain at first. But whenever a form dissolves, which is called "death," what remains is an opening into emptiness.”

Firsts Persons Home Pain Form Dies Gone Remains Extremes Opening Flames Emptiness Extreme Pain

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“Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or a little wave if you're a VIP - and the ripple doesn't become enlightened until it realizes that its ripple-identity is ultimately a misperception, that it is the ocean taking on a fleeting ripple-form.”

Ifs Littles Form Realizing Consciousness Identity Ocean Wave Enlightened Fleeting Ripple Misperception Vip

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The word 'heart' can refer to an emotional bond between people, and also to the precious faculty of empathy, an 'open heart', which means sharing the feelings of another and includes an outflow of goodwill towards our fellow humans and all life forms. This, of course, is what the Dalai Lama refers to when he says "my religion is kindness", and is closely related to the ability to feel compassion.”

People Feels Humans Heart Mean Feelings Form Courses Ability Compassion Kindness Emotional Empathy Fellows Related Faculty Goodwill Open Heart Lama Dalai

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.”

Humans Form Love Is Illusion Realms Otherness

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“In the world of form, everything changes and evolves. So, there was a certain evolution of the teaching. Different pointers came in, different stories, different approaches to the truth, which always is the same.”

World Different Stories Form Certain Teaching Evolution Approach Evolve Things Change Different Approach Pointers

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.”

People Believe Different Moments Form

Author:Eckhart Tolle

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

Moments Form Present Moment

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“Stress is a form of suffering.”

Form Suffering Stress

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“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

Author:Eckhart Tolle

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

People Form

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“What I know for sure is that I am a temporary expression in physical form of the one consciousness that expresses itself throughout the universe. I am not separate from that.”

Knows Form Universe Consciousness Expression Temporary

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.”

Matter Moments Form No Matter What Grateful

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.”

Thinking Mind Humans Kind Mean Spiritual Form Human Beings Violence Concepts Prejudice Thinking Mind

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.”

States Body Form Loses Love Is Dependent Within You Deep Within Power Of Now

Book:Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

“...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.”

Giving Past Form Identity Promise Enlightenment Illusion Salvation Fulfillment Power Of Now Spiritual Enlightenment

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.”

Doe Earth Spiritual Form Brain Consciousness Expression Complexes

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining, fear, aggression, or anger. This is important because whenever you complain about what somebody else does you're already beginning to fall into that trap of unconsciousness.”

Doe Important Moments Spiritual Form Fall Complaining Arise Resistance Present Moment Aggression Negativity Traps Unconsciousness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.”

World Light Spiritual Form Love Is Consciousness Divine Birth Oneness Recognition Dimensions Worldly Transparent Duality Dense New Earth

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.”

Want Persons Hard Done Form Levels Common Identity Angry Deny Insane Unconscious Phenomenon Negativity Let It Go Sabotage Positive Change

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.”

Heart States Form Known All Things Essence Ancient Buddhist Emptiness

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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