Eckhart Tolle idézet

oldal 9

„A múltnak nincs hatalma a jelen pillanat felett.”

„A boldogtalanság elsődleges oka soha nem a helyzet, hanem az ezzel kapcsolatos gondolataid.”

„Bármit is tartalmaz a jelen pillanat, fogadd el, mintha magad választottad volna azt!”

„Néha a dolgok elengedése sokkal nagyobb erőt követel, mint a megvédésük vagy a hozzájuk való ragaszkodás.”

„Nem ritka az olyan ember, aki egész életét arra várva tölti, hogy elkezdjen élni.”

„Vedd észre, hogy a jelen pillanat minden, amid van. Legyen MOST az életed középpontja.”

„Az emberi fájdalom nagy része szükségtelen. Önmagad teremted, amíg a megfigyeletlen elme irányítja az életedet.”

„Én nem a gondolataim, érzelmeim, érzékszervi észleléseim és tapasztalataim vagyok. Nem vagyok az életem tartalma. Én vagyok az Élet. Én vagyok a tér, amelyben minden dolog megvalósul. Én vagyok a tudatosság.”

„Te nem találhatod meg magad a múltban. Te csak azáltal találod meg magad, hogy belépsz a jelenbe.”

„Bármikor, amikor valami negatív dolog történik veled, egy mély lecke rejtőzik benne.”

„Bármi, amit másban nehezményezel és amire erősen reagálsz, benned is ott van.”

„Nem attól leszel jó, hogy megpróbálsz jó lenni, hanem attól, hogy megtalálod a jóságot, ami már benned van.”

„Nem azzal lelsz lelki békére, ha átrendezed életkörülményeidet, hanem ha fölismered, hogy ki is vagy valójában, a legmélyebb szinten.”

„Szeretni annyit jelent, hogy felismered magad egy másikban.”

„Az élet a táncos, te pedig a tánc.”

„Csak azt veszítheted el, ami birtokodban van. Nem veszítheted el azt, ami vagy.”

„Az emberiség legnagyobb vívmánya nem a művészeti, tudományos vagy technológiai alkotások, hanem saját működési zavarainak felismerése.”

“Many things in your life matter but only one thing matters absolutely. It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matters whether you are rich or poor. It certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking. But they don't matter absolutely. There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who your are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”

“Confusion, anger, depression, violence, and conflict arise when humans forget who they are. Yet how easy it is to remember the truth and thus return home: I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.”

“The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: “All things are intrinsically one.” That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.”

“Finding that dimension frees you and the world from the suffering you inflict on yourself and others when the mind-made “little me” is all you know and runs your life. Love, joy, creative expansion, and lasting inner peace cannot come into your life except through that unconditioned dimension of consciousness.”

“The human condition: Lost in thought 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. In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness. In the ancient teachings, it is the Christ within, or your Buddha nature.”

“Just as the ancient sutras, the writings contained within this book are sacred and have come out of a state of consciousness we may call stillness. Unlike those ancient sutras, however, they don’t belong to any one religion or spiritual tradition, but are immediately accessible to the whole of humanity. There is also an added sense of urgency here. The transformation of human consciousness is no longer a luxury, so to speak, available only to a few isolated individuals, but a necessity if humankind is not to destroy itself.”

“The form of this book can be seen as a revival for the present age of the oldest form of recorded spiritual teachings: the sutras of ancient India. Sutras are powerful pointers to the truth in the form of aphorisms or short sayings, with little conceptual elaboration. The Vedas and Upanishads are the early sacred teachings recorded in the form of sutras, as are the words of the Buddha. The sayings and parables of Jesus, too, when taken out of their narrative context, could be regarded as sutras, as well as the profound teachings contained in the Tao Te Ching, the ancient Chinese book of wisdom. The advantage of the sutra form lies in its brevity...”

“If you come to a spiritual teacher — or this book — looking for stimulating ideas, theories, beliefs, intellectual discussions, then you will be disappointed. This is not a book to be read from cover to cover and then put away. Live with it, pick it up frequently, and more importantly, put it down frequently, or spend more time holding it than reading it. Many readers will feel naturally inclined to stop reading after each entry, to pause, reflect, become still. It is always more helpful and more important to stop reading than to continue reading. Allow the book to do its work, to awaken you from the old grooves of your repetitive and conditioned thinking.”

“A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being.”

“You don't think, you are being thought by thought.”