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Thinking this is "The One" becomes an excuse to let your own life deteriorate.


TammyJo Eckhart

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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 Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and no...
MEISTER ECKHART Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
ECKHART TOLLE What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.
MEISTER ECKHART There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far alo...
MEISTER ECKHART The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me
MEISTER ECKHART If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you', it will be enough.
MEISTER ECKHART We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external th...
ECKHART TOLLE To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind ...
ECKHART TOLLE Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as...
ECKHART TOLLE I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
AARON ECKHART You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you,...
ECKHART TOLLE Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
ECKHART TOLLE