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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
Eckhart Tolle
You can only forgo something that you have, but you cannot relinquish something that you are.
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The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
Eckhart Tolle
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
Eckhart Tolle
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What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?
Eckhart Tolle
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What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.
Eckhart Tolle
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Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.
Eckhart Tolle
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Die before you die and find that there is no death.
Eckhart Tolle
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You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.
Eckhart Tolle
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
Eckhart Tolle
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â—¦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is
Eckhart Tolle
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All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.
Eckhart Tolle
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I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.
Herb Alpert
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Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.
Eckhart Tolle
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Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself
Eckhart Tolle
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
Eckhart Tolle
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When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.
Eckhart Tolle
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When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.
Eckhart Tolle
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...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.
Eckhart Tolle