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“To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.”

Thinking Needs Stills States Moments Consciousness Higher Subtlety States Of Consciousness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“You don't have to wait for something 'meaningful' to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The 'waiting to start living' syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state.”

Needs States Joy Waiting Enjoy Common Meaningful Unconscious Delusion Syndromes

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

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

“So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing”

Ifs Needs Giving Mind States Moments Next Waiting Enjoy Giving Up Standing Sorry Present Moment State Of Mind Next Time Snaps Slipping Saying Sorry

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

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

“All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.”

Knows Needs Feels Ego Superiors Inferiors

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

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

“Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.”

World Needs Ends Fear End Of The World

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being. It is an essential part of the inner state of peace, the state that has been called the peace of God. It is your natural state, not something that you need to work hard for or struggle to attain.”

Needs Has Beens Hard States Joy Natural Struggle Hard Work Essentials Arise

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

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

“Space really means the level of awareness or presence, not thinking. So, can you look at your partner and not think? Two conscious beings realize that the essence of the relationship is the space in it. Even when there is an egoic overlay, it is not too dense or heavy for you to sense the essence underneath it. You don't need to react to the egoic overlay. When you don't react to it you don't strengthen it.”

Thinking Needs Looks Mean Two Realizing Space Levels Awareness Conscious Essence Heavy Partners Being Real Really Mean Dense

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.”

People Needs Sometimes Loss Deeper Driven Great Loss

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.”

Needs Enemy Groups Identity Defined

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.”

Needs Stories Order Courses Opinion Position Perspective Ego Judgement Identification

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

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

“The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.”

Needs Whole Problem Time Suffering Walking Essence Who You Are Edges Absence No Problem Razors Time Of Need

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

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

“If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve. But if the power of spiritual teaching is already at work, then a minor event can dissolve the ego.”

Ifs Needs Spiritual Suffering Teacher Teaching Events Ego Minors Dose Spiritual Teaching

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.”

Needs Looks Nations Enemy Identity Depends Conflict Collectives Tribes Separateness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.”

Needs Moments One Thing Skills Embrace Making Money Present Moment Territory Time Of Need New Skills New Territory

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

“I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.”

Needs Feels Happens Teaching Return Pure My Favorite Connected Arise Stillness Favorite Places

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“You don't need to suffer anymore. You've suffered enough to take you to this point where you hear the words, "You don't need to suffer anymore," and you understand them. You recognize their truth and you then see that you do have a choice that you can surrender to the suchness of now, which means every moment to relinquish resistance and if it still arises, to recognize it.”

Ifs Needs Mean Stills Enough Moments Suffering Choices Surrender Arise Resistance

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that I didn't want or need any of that anymore.”

People Want Needs Crazy Letting Go Worldly Worldly Things

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.”

Ifs Needs Humans Has Beens Term Violence Century Madness Twentieth Century Climax

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“We can't escape from the world anymore; we can't escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now.”

World Needs Mind Seems Path Surrender

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“No practice can take you to liberation. That is important to know. It can be a little step that is useful until you realize you don't need it anymore, because after a certain point it becomes a hindrance.”

Knows Needs Littles Important Certain Realizing Steps Practice Liberation Hindrance

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Now if a teacher gives you a practice, he or she would perhaps point out when you don't need it anymore or you realize yourself when you don't need it anymore.”

Ifs Needs Giving Realizing Practice Teacher

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment.”

People Needs Mind Humans Looks Moments Problem Certain Awareness Degrees Overcoming Obstacles Arise Get Away Present Moment Human Mind Detachment Spaciousness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully awakened for this to happen, but if it does happen it certainly means you are awakening.”

Ifs Needs Mean Doe Happens Spiritual Awakening Dimensions Awakened Spiritual Dimensions

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.”

Needs Helping Pain Desire Causes Levels Effects Eternal Empathy Illusion Flow Deeper Realization Balanced

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

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

“As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.”

Needs Mind Games Roles Return Mets Ego Identification Playing Games

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“When you are aligned with the now internally, when you take responsibility for this moment, then life is helpful and tends to bring you what you need.”

Needs Moments Life Is Responsibility Helpful Taking Responsibility

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.”

Needs Suffering Arise

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is another dimension in them that is not thinking but the ability to be aware of thinking. It is not emotion but the ability to be aware of emotion.”

People Thinking Needs Sometimes Suffering Realizing Ability Emotion Consciousness Awareness Dimensions

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“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

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“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

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“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

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.”

People Ifs Way Life Inspirational Needs Moments Spiritual Challenges Treats Overcoming Obstacles Insane Present Moment Way To Live Power Of Now Stillness Speaks

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.”

Knows Needs Stills Teaching Rivers Ritual Stillness Vehicle Entering Psalms

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.”

“All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.”

Life Inspirational Needs Moments Spiritual Accepting Acceptance Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Ease Here And Now Power Of Now Power Of Now Book

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.”

Knows Needs Should States Happens Belief Accepting Gone Letting Go Ego Who You Are Confusion Clarity Defining Define Yourself Limiting Yourself

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

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

“Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.”

Needs Suffering Live In The Present Time Of Need

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

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

“The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be.”

Needs Past

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

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

“The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.”

Needs Spiritual Suffering Truth Is Ego Distortion Paradoxical

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

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

“Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.”

Needs Feels Moments Past Dies Relevant Fullness Power Of Now Your Presence

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

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

“Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought”

Thinking Life Inspirational Needs Doe Wisdom Consciousness Aspect Power Of Now

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

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

“To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.”

Needs Mind Spiritual Spirituality Consciousness Journey Essentials Conscious Tasks Spiritual Journey Power Of Now

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

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

“All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. As long as I am my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversions, and apart from them there is no "I" except as a mere possibility, an unfulfilled potential, a seed that has not yet sprouted.”

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

“To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are.”

Ifs Needs Believe Realizing Awareness Who You Are Seekers Time Of Need Be Who You Are

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.”

Needs Past Consciousness Keys Surrender Cease

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

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

“The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.”

Needs Humans States Reason Seems Romance Conditions Offers Experience Intense Liberation Reason Why Human Condition Romantic Love Love Relationship Incompleteness

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

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

“Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now.”

People Needs Two Facts Running Spiritual Desire Order Given Fear Taken Movement Becoming Losing Add Being Yourself Within You Obscure Fullness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.”

Needs Past Freedom Salvation Psychological Negativity Psychological Needs

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment”

Needs Past Identity Psychological Fulfillment Power Of Now Psychological Needs

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

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

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