01UndatedWhen you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
02UndatedIn many cases you are not buying a product but an “identity enhancer.” Designer labels are primarily collective identities that you buy into. They are expensive and therefore “exclusive.” If everybody could buy them, they would lose their psychological value and all you would be left with would be their material value, which likely amounts to a fraction of what you paid.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
03UndatedThe more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
04UndatedSo the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
05UndatedEgo-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
06UndatedAcknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
07UndatedThere is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
08UndatedTrue communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
09UndatedMost 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 / quote ↗
11UndatedDon'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 surrenderEckhart Tolle / quote ↗
12UndatedI don't know" is not confusion. Confusion is "I don't know, but I should know" or "I don't know, but I need to know." When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
13UndatedTo awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
14UndatedReligions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about an ending of violence and hatred through a realization of the fundamental oneness of all life, they brought more violence and hatred, more divisions between people as well as between different religions and even within the same religion. They became ideologies; belief systems people could identify with and so use them to enhance their false sense of self. Through them they could make themselves “right” and others “wrong” and thus define their identity through their enemies, the “others”, the “nonbelievers” or “wrong believers” who not infrequently they saw themselves justified in the killing.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
15UndatedBody awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
16UndatedYou can only be in a state of non-reaction if you can recognize someone's behavior as coming from the ego, as being an expression of the collective human dysfunction. When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
17UndatedWhat keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
18UndatedHow you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego's sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
20UndatedEgo-identification with things creates attachment to things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of progress is always more. The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part. Some economists are so attached to the notion of growth that they can't let go of that word, so they refer to recession as a time of "negative growth".Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
21UndatedWhen you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
22Undated...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
24UndatedIf you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.Eckhart Tolle / quote ↗
