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The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Belief - Identity - Spiritual

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Eckhart Tolle

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If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

Ego - Envy - Feelings - Illusion - Madness - Strength - Taking - Thinking

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When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it joy because that's what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being - of being who you truly are.

Essence - Joy - Knowledge

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Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment - the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.

Breathing - Consciousness - Force - Key - Mindset - Thinking - Transformation

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Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

Making - Mindset - Oneself - Past - People

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Feel the Aliveness within your Body. That anchors You in the Now.

Feelings

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Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.

Ability - Actions - Consciousness - Listening

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Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.

Accept - Animals - Death - Integrity - Meaning - Problem - Real - Teaching - Watching

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The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.

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If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.

Consciousness - Past - Quality

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How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.

Wants

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A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.

Deal - Fear - Future - People - Problem - Thinking

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I enjoy going to Starbucks, having a cup of coffee, sitting in my car, driving from here to there, sitting at home looking at the trees, going for a walk with a dog. It's all very enjoyable.

Coffee - Drive - Enjoying - Home

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Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond. If you fight it, you're stuck with it.

Accept - Fighting

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The power of the heart is to be connected with who you are at the deepest level. The power of the heart is the power of life itself, the power of the very intelligence that pervades and underlies the entire universe. It is a power that lies at the very heart of the universe. So to live in connectedness with that, then you are in touch with the power of the heart.

Lie - Universe

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Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

People - Secrets - Wants

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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.

Achievement - Giving - Inspiration - Life - Spiritual - Wants

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At the deepest level, an 'open heart' is spacious presence, in which the sense of separateness between yourself and the 'other' dissolves and there is the recognition of oneness, of shared consciousness. That recognition is love. Sensing the formless essence in another and recognizing it as one with your own essence - that's what love is. All this is an intrinsic part of the awakened consciousness and the revelation of the spiritual dimension of life.

Awakening - Consciousness - Essence - Oneness - Recognition - Revelation - Sense - Spiritual

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When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no foundation - that is the foundation. The formless. The essence.

Essence

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Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves.

Loss - Real - Value

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