Daily Insight: Eckhart Tolle: You Are Not the Thinker

“The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.”

― Eckhart Tolle, Practicing the Power of Now:
Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises
from the Power of Now

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Daily Insight: Eckhart Tolle: The Experience in the Moment

“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.”

― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth:
Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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Daily Insight: Eckhart Tolle: Don’t Look for Peace

“Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender”

― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now:
A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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Daily Insight: Eckhart Tolle: Voices in Your Head

“When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking.”

— Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks ^

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Daily Insight: Time and Mind Are Inseparable

“The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind. The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it. In other words, the more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer. Or you may put it like this: the more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering - and free of the egoic mind. Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.”

― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now:
A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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Daily Insight: Eckhart Tolle on theNonacceptance of What Is

“See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”

― Eckhart Tolle,
The Power of Now:
A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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Daily Insight: Eckhart Tolle on Self-Forgiveness

“Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an evolutionary stage that we are now growing out of?

Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also apply to yourself.”

― Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks

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Daily Insight: Fear and Now by Eckhart Tolle

"A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivated by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either."

— Eckhart Tolle

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Words of Wisdom for Dec. 27, 2019: Eckhart Tolle: You Are Not the Thinker

“The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.”

― Eckhart Tolle, Practicing the Power of Now:
Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises
from the Power of Now

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Words of Wisdom for Dec. 17, 2019: Eckhardt Tolle: Not Enough Presence

“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.”

― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

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Words of Wisdom for Nov. 28, 2019: The Goodness Already Within You

“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.”

― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth:
Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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Words of Wisdom for Nov. 12, 2019: Love is Not Selective by Eckhardt Tolle

“Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the "love" of ego. However, the intensity with which true love is felt can vary. There may be one person who reflects your love back to you more clearly and more intensely than others, and if that person feels the same toward you, it can be said that you are in a love relationship with him or her. The bond that connects you with that person is the same bond that connects you with the person sitting next to you on a bus, or with a bird, a tree, a flower. Only the degree of intensity with which it is felt differs.”

― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now:
A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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Words of Wisdom for Oct. 30, 2019: Eckhart Tolle on Time

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

― Eckhart Tolle,
The Power of Now:
A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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Words of Wisdom for Oct. 13, 2019: Eckhart Tolle: Give Up Defining Yourself

“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

― Eckhart Tolle,
A New Earth:
Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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Words of Wisdom for Aug. 24, 2019: Eckhart Tolle on Presence

“If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.”

― Eckhart Tolle,
The Power of Now:
A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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Daily Dharma July 30, 2019: Eckhart Tolle

“The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.”

― Eckhart Tolle
Practicing the Power of Now:
Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

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Daily Dharma July 19, 2019 Eckhart Tolle

“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.”

― Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now:
A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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