Eckhart Tolle Quotes About Awareness

Quotes about: Awareness

• Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Breathing, Space

  Twitter post from Sep 24, 2009

• As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Struggle

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.68, New World Library

• You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

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  Spiritual, Awareness, Power Of Now

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.177, Penguin

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

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Live In The Moment

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.8, Penguin

• 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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Feb 21, 2013

• Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

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  Flower, Tree, Looks

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.5, New World Library

• Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

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  Spiritual, Agents, Awareness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.71, Penguin

• The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

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  Religious, Knowledge, Ego

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 2004.

• With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.

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  Irritation, Choices, Able

• Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them. Some feel that they inhabit a no-man's-land between two worlds. They are no longer run by the ego, yet the arising awareness has not yet become fully integrated into their lives. Inner and outer purpose have not merged.

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  Running, Men, Land

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.194, Penguin

• Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

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  Thinking, Links, Emotion

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.69, Penguin

• Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.

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  Spiritual, Purpose, World

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.59, Penguin

• The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

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  Spiritual, Ego, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.51, Penguin

• Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking. I cannot tell you anything that deep within you don't already know. When you have reached a certain stage of inner connectedness, you recognize the truth when you hear it. If you haven't reached that stage yet, the practice of body awareness will bring about the deepening that is necessary.

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  Thinking, Practice, Feelings

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1997.

• Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.

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  Believe, Mean, Negativity

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.77, Penguin

• Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness.

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  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.92, New World Library

• To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are.

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  Believe, Be Who You Are, Needs

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.54, New World Library

• You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

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  Unconscious Thoughts, Mind, Able

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.25, New World Library

• Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

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  Thinking, Awareness, Existence

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.33, Penguin

• Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

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  Broken Hearted, Emotion, Awareness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.69, Penguin

• What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

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  Thinking, Space, Awareness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.160, Penguin

• All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

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  Love, Life, Beauty

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.17, New World Library

• True Power is within, and it is available now.

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  Spiritual, True Power, Awareness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.45, New World Library

• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

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  Space, People, World

  "Bad Memories? Eckhart Tolle’s Advice on How to Deal". “Super Soul Sunday“ with Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

• That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.

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  Spiritual, Insanity, Madness

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.100, Penguin

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