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Eckhart Tolle Quotes

German - Author | February 16, 1948 -

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Car Time Sky Space Mind Door

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Mistakes Past Balance Losing Learn

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.

Fear Anger Mind Sadness Boredom You

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Change Power Yourself Negative Speak

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Success Future Relationship Moment

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

Thoughts You Realize Begin Your

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Future Happiness Time Happy People

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Power Small Things Small Think You

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

Moment Thinking Present You Become

I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

Thankful Moment Grateful Now Matter

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Time Mistake Action Better Learn

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Good Future Effort Foundation You

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