Stillness Speaks Quotes

• The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2009

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• You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Beauty

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.142, New World Library

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• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Tree, Looks

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

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• Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Sadness, Boredom, Feeling Sad

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.19, New World Library

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• Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Looks, Ability, Needed

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.9, New World Library

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• When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, Names, Meditation

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.3, New World Library

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• I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Space, Perception, Emotion

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.47, New World Library

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• Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Space, Perception, Essentials

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.3, New World Library

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• Nothing that comes and goes is you.
  
  'I am bored.' Who knows this?
  
  'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this?
  
  You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Knowing, Bored, Comes And Goes

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.19, New World Library

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• Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Live In The Moment, Mindfulness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.35, New World Library

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• Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "The bedsit epiphany" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.

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• True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Creativity, Play

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.7, New World Library

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• When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Balance, World, Loser

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.3, New World Library

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• The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Truth Is

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.53, New World Library

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• The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Philosophical, Thinking, Momentum

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.14, New World Library

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• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Business

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.118, New World Library

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• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Religious, Knowledge, Ego

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

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• You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stars, Animal, Stones

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.53, New World Library

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• How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love Relationship, Doe, Want

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.91, New World Library

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• There will never be a time when your life is not this moment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mindfulness, Life Is, Moments

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Apr 07, 2011

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• Die before you die and find that there is no death.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Power Of Now, Stripping, New Earth

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.46, New World Library

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• The present moment is all you ever have.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Live In The Moment

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.128, Penguin

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• As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Pain, Emotional

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.36, New World Library

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• On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life Changing, Friendly, Different

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.39, New World Library

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• Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Positive, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.35, New World Library

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