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Tag: Eckhart Tolle

  • Reflection on Being Spiritual

    “How spiritual you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness. This, in turn, determines how you act in the world and interact with others.” ~ Eckhart Tolle It isn’t enough to hold on to noble ideals and beliefs, we have to bring them into…

  • Inspiration – Eckhart on ego

    “If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that’s just more ego.” ~ Eckhart Tolle Smiling …. After all, my ego is much bigger problem compared to yours! Today, let go of taking things so personally and let your ego take a back seat. Let go of comparisons and feeling you are alone.…

  • Authentic Being

      “When you don’t play roles, it means that there is no self (ego) in what you do. There is no secondary agenda: protection or strengthening of your self. As a result your actions have far greater power. You are totally focused on the situation. You become one with it. You don’t try to be…

  • True Intelligence

    “True intelligence is to rise above thinking as the source of all intelligence.” ~ Eckhart Tolle I sat with these words this morning and had to smile. Of course, it is Tolle’s thinking that comes up with these gems. ☺️ Yet, it opens us up to something that is beyond our thoughts, that many of…

  • The Gift of Space

    “Most people’s lives are cluttered up with things: material things, things to do, things to think about. Their lives are like the history of humanity, which Winston Churchill defined as “one damn thing after another.” Their minds are filled up with the clutter of thoughts, one thought after another. This is the dimension of object…

  • Pondering – Wake Up

    “To awaken means to awaken out of the self-talk in the head because the self-talk is a form of hypnosis – self hypnosis.” ~ Eckhart Tolle With awareness of  self talk, comes inquiry. What is your self talk telling you these days? Where is it guiding you? Is it massaging fears… helping you cope with…

  • Thoughts on Incessant Thinking

    Thoughts on Incessant Thinking

    This is a re-blog of an earlier post. I dedicate it to all of us who are getting tangled up in our thinking today. oo0O0oo In the highs and lows of life do you find yourself stuck in over analyzing and incessant thinking? When the mind gets tangled up?  This quote from Eckhart Tolle catch…

  • Inspiration – Letting Go of the Past

      “Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now.” ~ Eckhart Tolle Such a powerful statement. The mind often gets caught up in the past so much that we are filled with feelings such as regret, anger or shame about what has happened. We may feel stuck, or unable…

  • * The Practice of Surrender to Become Real

    “Until you practice surrender, the spiritual dimension is something you read about, talk about, get excited about, write books about, think about, believe in — or don’t, as the case may be. It makes no difference. Not until you surrender does it become a living reality in your life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle This reminds me…

  • The Gift of Letting Go

    “Sometimes letting go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on” ~ Eckhart Tolle Letting go can be more powerful that putting our energy into defending or hanging on… yet it is often hard to do. Sometimes we don’t realize that we are holding on to something, until we notice tension…

  • * Pause … and Refresh

    “Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. … When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.” ~ Eckhart Tolle Most of us know this to be true, yet how many times do we take time for…

  • * Inspiration – change and clouds

    “It is the nature of the world of form that nothing stays fixed for very long – and so it starts to fall apart again. Forms dissolve; new forms arise. Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.” Eckhart Tolle Whether your world is falling apart or bursting open .. or…

  • Inspiration – Life is an adventure – Tolle

    “Life is an adventure, not a package tour.” ~ Eckhart Tolle This is a great reminder for me today – especially as I will be leaving for Europe on vacation next week. We are not going on a package tour, but I do want to be prepared and feel in control 😉 When we spend…

  • Nurturing Thursday – Letting Go

    “Sometimes letting go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on” ~ Eckhart Tolle Letting go can be more powerful that putting our energy into defending or hanging on… yet it is often hard to do. Sometimes we don’t realize that we are holding on to something until we notice tension…

  • * The Power of Eckhart Tolle by Steve Taylor

    Originally posted on Evolutionary_Mystic Post: Originally published in Kindred Spirit, 2011. In a recent survey by Watkins Bookshop, Eckhart Tolle was listed as the ‘most spiritually influential living person on the planet.’ You might think that such a person would be someone who is a major presence in the media, and who appears regularly in…

  • * Inspiration – Stillness

    It has been said: “Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.” Becoming conscious of stillness whenever we encounter it in our lives will connect us with the formless and timeless dimension within ourselves, that which is beyond thought, beyond ego. Eckhart Tolle   It may be we find this…