Eckhart Tolle
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A contemporary spiritual teacher known for his writings on mindfulness and presence. His book "The Power of Now" has become a seminal work in modern spirituality, emphasizing the importance of living in the present moment and transcending the egoic mind. His teachings focus on the concept of presence as a gateway to inner peace and fulfillment, guiding individuals to experience a deeper connection to themselves and to reality beyond mental constructs.
Eckhart Tolle
Quotes
A contemporary spiritual teacher known for his writings on mindfulness and presence. His book "The Power of Now" has become a seminal work in modern spirituality, emphasizing the importance of living in the present moment and transcending the egoic mind. His teachings focus on the concept of presence as a gateway to inner peace and fulfillment, guiding individuals to experience a deeper connection to themselves and to reality beyond mental constructs.
And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."
I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own oneness with God also, so he's a precursor.
Don't quote the Buddha. Be the Buddha.
If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.
If you don't have a good relationship with the now, you don't have a good relationship with life.
The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.
Everything is honoured, but nothing matters.
Even running to catch a train or a taxi, you can enjoy the high energy of the moment.
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.
When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.
The source of all abundance is not outside of you. It's a part of who you are.
The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.
For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.
Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.
Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life.
Die before you die and find that there is no death.
Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves.
Wake up. Get out of your mind. Be present.
Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.
Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.
The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.
The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.
