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“If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what’s left is who you are – the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.  Give up defining yourself – to yourself and others.  You won’t die.  You will come to life.”

“Always say yes to the present moment.  Surrender to what is.  Say “yes” to life – and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.”

“Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad.  That causes an emotional contraction.  When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you.  The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.”

-Eckhart Tolle

Categories: Inspirational Quotes

Be aware of the space that allows everything to be.  Listen to the sounds; don’t judge them.  Listen to the silence underneath the sounds.  Touch something – anything – and feel and acknowledge its Being.

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of the ego.  The ego can never be in alignment with the present moment, which is to say, aligned with life, since its very nature compels it to ignore, resist, or devalue the Now.

Death is the opening into the dimension of the transcendent, the possibility of knowing who we are beyond name and form.

Categories: Inspirational Quotes

“The interconnectedness of all things: Buddhists have always known it, and physicists now confirm it.  Nothing that happens is an isolated event.  The more we label something, the more we isolate it.  The wholeness of life becomes fragmented through our thinking”.

“Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others.  When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.”

“Be aware of the space that allows everything to be.  Listen to the sounds; don’t judge them.  Listen to the silence underneath the sounds.  Touch something – anything – and feel and acknowledge its Being.”

Categories: Inspirational Quotes

“When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.”

“Thinking isolates a situation and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real when you are trapped in it.”

“A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.”

Categories: Inspirational Quotes

“With stillness comes the benediction of peace”.
“Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence.  Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented.  This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.”
“When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath.  Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.”

-Eckhart Tolle

Categories: Inspirational Quotes

“Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time.  It means saying yes to what is.”

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.  Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.  Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is.”

“Is suffering really necessary?  Yes and no.  If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.”

Categories: Inspirational Quotes

“When every thoughts absorbs your attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and therefore in the grip of the ego.”

Inspired Stories
Since reading Eckhart Tolle's books, my life has changed considerably. I am now more concerned with living the present moment to the fullest, because as Eckhart says that is the only life we really have. I have also learned to be more compassionate in daily activities, which is something my ego never allowed me to do much. I started living the present moment more about five years ago after some major surgery that really made me think about who I really am...

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