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Acceptance looks like a passive Narrow your life down to this us back by whitelisting our site.

state, but in reality it brings moment. Your life situation may be

something entirely new into this
world. That peace, a subtle energy
vibration, is consciousness.
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full of problems - most life situations
are - but find out if you have a
problem at this moment. Do you
have a problem now?
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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.
Eckhart Tolle
If you live only in one culture for the
first 20 years of your life, you
become conditioned without
knowing it.
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Most humans are never fully
present in the now, because
unconsciously they believe that the
next moment must be more
important than this one. But then
you miss your whole life, which is
never not now.
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Most people treat the present

When you wash your hands, when
you make a cup of coffee, when
you're waiting for the elevator -
instead of indulging in thinking,
these are all opportunities for being
there as a still, alert presence.
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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.
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People don't realize that now is all

People look to time in expectation
that it will eventually make them
happy, but you cannot find true
happiness by looking toward the
future.
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there ever is; there is no past or
future except as memory or
anticipation in your mind.
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Many people identify their sense of
self with the problems they have, or
think they have.
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go through everybody's mind
Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's continuously. External things like
applied. Thinking, however, can not possessions or memories or failures
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become the master. Thinking is a
very bad master. If you're
dominated by thinking then your life
becomes very restricted.
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I believe that Jesus realized his
oneness with God and he showed,
what he attempted to do was show
the way to all of us, how to realize
our own onenes with God also, so
he's a precursor.
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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.
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or successes or achievements. Your
personal history.
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People tend to dwell more on
negative things than on good things.
So the mind then becomes
obsessed with negative things, with
The 'soul' is one of the words you
judgments, guilt and anxiety
can use to talk about your innermost
produced by thoughts about the
being, the essence of who you are.
future and so on.
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You can have religion with
I'm grateful for always this moment,
spirituality. You can also have
the now, no matter what form it
religion without spirituality.
takes.
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The mind is a superb instrument if
The answer is, who you are cannot
used rightly. Used wrongly,
be defined through thinking or
however, it becomes very
mental labels or definitions,
destructive. To put it more
because it's beyond that. It is the
accurately... you usually don't use it
very sense of being, or presence,
at all. It uses you.
that is there when you become
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conscious of the present moment. In
essence, you and what we call the
present moment are, at the deepest
level, one.
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If danger arises in the present
moment, there may be an emotion.
There may even be pain. But that's
a challenge, not a problem. For a
problem to exist, you need time and
If you are not living this moment,
repetitive mind activity.
you are not really living.
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles
Was Jesus the son of God? Yes.
for entering stillness. It says in
But so are you. You just haven't
Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that
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 I am God.' But they are still just realized it yet.
vehicles. The Buddha called his Eckhart Tolle
The more you live in the present teaching a raft: You don't need to
moment, the more the fear of death carry it around with you after you've
disappears. crossed the river.
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