Power Of Now Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Memories, Past

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• 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

  Spiritual, Creativity, Joy

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.76, Penguin

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• Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Enemy, Allies, Moments

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• To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Grace, Ease, Awakening

  Twitter post from Nov 01, 2012

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• Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Anger, Criminal Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.40, New World Library

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• The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fear, Worry, Anxiety

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.43, New World Library

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• All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Negativity, Denial, Psychological

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.61, New World Library

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• Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth

  Eckhart Tolle

  Disappointment, Needs, May

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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

  Light, Exposed

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.39, New World Library

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• For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Real, Two Of Me, Self

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.4, New World Library

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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

  Mean, Levels, Ends

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.108, New World Library

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• Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Joy

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.12, New World Library

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• Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Spiritual, Live In The Moment

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.38, Penguin

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• Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Causes, Emotion

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.55, New World Library

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• Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stress, Tears, Splits

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.84, New World Library

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• Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Struggle, Joy, Covering

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

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• Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

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• The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Mind, Painful

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.227, New World Library

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• The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now

  Eckhart Tolle

  Quality, Shapes, Consciousness

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.60, New World Library

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• Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Self, Essence

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.16, New World Library

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• 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

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• Fear not; only believe. This is a time to make resolutions that will be binding upon you. This is a season to set standards that will hold you to the right course and make you happy now and in the years that follow.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspirational, Being Happy, Believe

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