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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.


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ECKHART TOLLE ...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in w...
ECKHART TOLLE People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory ...
ECKHART TOLLE Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into ...
ECKHART TOLLE A woman in her thirties came to see me. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite ...
ECKHART TOLLE Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time b...
ECKHART TOLLE To love is to recognize yourself in another.
ECKHART TOLLE Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don'...
ECKHART TOLLE The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
ECKHART TOLLE See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find y...
ECKHART TOLLE It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
ECKHART TOLLE Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation...
ECKHART TOLLE Our biggest issue is, what is community service? Volunteering is obvious, (like) going to a senior c...
BRETT ECKHART They can be learning how to be good helpers.
BRETT ECKHART What we're doing is making the connection to the kids (about) what it means to be a contributing cit...
BRETT ECKHART I was going to do something during election time (in my own class).
BRETT ECKHART We will be promoting students to be effective communicators and contributing citizens.
BRETT ECKHART The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep do...
ECKHART TOLLE Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thin...
ECKHART TOLLE The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
ECKHART TOLLE Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
ECKHART TOLLE In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other...
ECKHART TOLLE Words derive their power from the original word.
MEISTER ECKHART People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed ...
ECKHART TOLLE Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
MEISTER ECKHART