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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 Icon Image
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.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

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So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.

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Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now the possibility for movies to embody that arising new state of consciousness.

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When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

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Make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which you are connected to other human beings as well as to the whole. See yourself inspiring countless people with your work and enriching their lives. Feel yourself being an opening through which energy flows from the unmanifested Source of all life through you for the benefit of all.

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The past has no power over the present moment.

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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.

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Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation.

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You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

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Ego is an immature stage of development for humans, and that's what it will be recognized as when the consciousness changes on the planet. Children will develop an ego and quickly outgrow it. That's very different from developing an ego and being stuck with it for the rest of your life.

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Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

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Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here to generate consciousness through the activities of daily life, through their interactions with others as well as through "just being."

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Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger.

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You get there by realizing you are already there.

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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

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Every human being in the human form has limitations.

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The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

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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.

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The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

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Non-reaction is not weakness, But Strength!

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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

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Ultimately, there is no such thing as "my consciousness," but just the one consciousness and to sense your connectedness with the one (I can sense that continuously, which is why I can say that I know this for sure) to sense that connectedness with the one consciousness that pervades the universe, which in some traditions is called God, to sense that frees you of fear, from anxiety, and takes you to a very deep place of peace, but also of heightened aliveness.

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Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.

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