"Worry pretends to be necessary, but serves no useful purpose."
Worry Pretends to be Necessary
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Eckhart Tolle
Give much more Attention to the Doing
"'How' is always more important that 'what.' See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it."
Suffering cracks open the shell of Ego
"Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary."
Is suffering really necessary?
"Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion."
Who am I?
"What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that."
The Mind is a Superb Instrument
"The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly — you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you...
Time and Mind are Inseparable
"Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable."
Say YES to Life
"Always say 'Yes' to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? What could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say 'Yes' to life — and see...
Space has no Existance
"Space has no 'existence.' 'To exist' literally means 'to stand out.' You cannot understand space because it doesn’t stand out. Although in itself it has no existence, it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no existence either, nor does the Unmanifested."
Identifying with Emotions and Thoughts
"Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become 'I'."