Eckhart Tolle cytaty

strona 6

„Zdarzało mi się mieszkać z mistrzami zen, a każdy z nich był kotem.”

„Nic tak nie wzmacnia jak przypisywanie sobie racji. Ludzie muszą krytykować innych, aby uzyskać silniejsze poczucie tego, kim są.”

„Jeśli dojdziesz do ładu z własnym wnętrzem, wówczas to, co zewnętrzne, samo się ułoży. Rzeczywistość pierwotna tkwi wewnątrz, a zewnętrzna jest wobec niej wtórna.”

„Porażka tkwi utajona w każdym sukcesie, a w każdej porażce kryje się sukces.”

„Mam, więc jestem. Im więcej mam, tym bardziej jestem. – Ego rośnie poprzez zwiększanie swojego posiadania.”

„Słowa redukują rzeczywistość do czegoś, co umysł może ogarnąć.”

„Wszystko, co Cię oburza i na co silnie reagujesz u drugiego człowieka, istnieje także w Tobie.”

„Jakkolwiek zachowuje się ego, kierujący nim motyw jest zawsze taki sam: pragnie się wyróżniać, być wyjątkowe, sprawować kontrolę, chce władzy i uwagi.”

„Robić, co do nas należy w danej sytuacji, i nie czynić z tego roli, z którą się utożsamiamy – to podstawowa lekcja sztuki życia, której mamy się nauczyć tutaj na ziemi.”

„Pewien żebrak od ponad trzydziestu lat siedział przy drodze. Aż tu któregoś dnia nadszedł jakiś nieznajomy. „Ma pan trochę drobnych?” – wymamrotał żebrak, machinalnie wyciągając rękę, w której trzymał starą czapkę do baseballu. „Nie mam niczego, co mógłbym ci dać” – odparł przechodzień, a po chwili spytał: „Ale na czym ty właściwie siedzisz?”. „Och, to tylko stara skrzynka” – odpowiedział żebrak. „Siedzę na niej, odkąd pamiętam”. „A zajrzałeś kiedyś do środka?” – zapytał nieznajomy. „Nie” – odrzekł żebrak. „Po co miałbym zaglądać? Tam nic nie ma”. „Może jednak zajrzyj” – powiedział przechodzień. Żebrak zdołał podważyć wieko. Ze zdumieniem, niedowierzaniem i uniesieniem stwierdził, że skrzynka jest pełna złota.”

„Gdy jedno ego napotyka drugie (lub gdy zbiera się większe ich grono), zaczynają się dramaty. Ale nawet jeśli żyjesz samotnie, i tak stwarzasz swój własny dramat. – Ilekroć użalasz się nad sobą, dramatyzujesz. – Kiedy ogarnia cię poczucie winy albo niepokój, również jest to dramat. – Kiedy godzisz się na to, żeby teraźniejszość znikła za zasłoną przeszłości lub przyszłości, tworzysz czas psychologiczny – czyli materiał, z którego dramat powstaje. – Ilekroć nie pozwalasz obecnej chwili po prostu być, a więc odmawiasz jej należnego szacunku, także tworzysz dramat.”

„Mam więc jestem. Im więcej mam, tym bardziej jestem.”

“To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.”

“On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.”

“You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.”

“Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.”

“If there is no joy, ease, or lightness in what you are doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how. “How” is always more important than “what.” See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.”

“When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.”

“Every outer purpose is doomed to “fail” sooner or later, simply because it is subject to the law of impermanence of all things.”

“I cannot live with myself any longer.” This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. “Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’ that ‘I’ cannot live with.”

“The reason why you don't put your hand in the fire is not because of fear, it's because you know you'll get burned. You don't need fear to avoid an unnecessary danger, just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.”

“Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of the consciousness and the burning up of the ego.”

“By knowing yourself as the awareness in which phenomenal existence happens, you become free of dependency on phenomena and free of self seeking in situations, places, and conditions. In other words, what happens or doesn't happen is not that important anymore. Things lose their heaviness, their seriousness. A playfulness comes into your life. You recognize this world as a cosmic dance, the dance of form.”

“The ego … reduces the present to a means to an end.”

“The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.”

“… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.”

“If your destination, or the steps you are going to take in the future, take up so much of your attention that they become more important to you than the step you are taking now, then you completely miss the journey’s inner purpose, which has nothing to do with where you are going or what you are doing, but everything to do with how. It has nothing to do with future but everything to do with the quality of your consciousness at this moment.”

“When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.”

“Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment…you can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.”

“Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future.”

“Do you treat this moment as if it were an obstacle to be overcome? Do you feel you have a future moment to get to that is more important?
Almost everyone lives like this most of the time. Since the future never arrives, except as the present, it is a dysfunctional way to live. It generates a constant undercurrent of unease, tension, and discontent. It does not honor life, which is Now and never not Now.”

“Listen to people's stories and they all could be entitled "Why I Cannot Be At Peace Now" The ego doesn't know that your only opportunity for being at peace is now.”

“To let go of judgment does not mean that you don’t see what they do. It means that you recognize their behavior as a form of conditioning, and you see it and accept it as that. You don’t construct an identity out of it for that person.
That liberates you as well as the other person from identification with conditioning, with form, with mind.”

“You can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention, so that it becomes an end in itself.”

“A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are it!”

“We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease…..”

“Be there as the witnessing presence of your inner state. You don’t have to do anything. With the awareness comes transformation and freedom.”

“Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it. … Can you accept the isness of this moment and not confuse it with a story the mind has created around it?”

“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you and allowing that goodness to emerge. If peace is really what you want, then choose peace. The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”

“The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise, you will be forced to relive the past again and again.”

“For this companion volume to A New Earth, I selected passages from the original book that felt particularly suitable for inspirational or meditative reading. For this reason I do not recommend that you read this book straight through from cover to cover. It would be far more beneficial to read, at the most, one chapter at a time, stopping at and perhaps rereading whatever passages elicit an inner response. Then let the words sink in and sense the truth to which they point, which is, of course, already within you. It can also be helpful to open the book at random occasionally, read one page or just one passage and let the words point the way to that dimension deep within that is beyond words, beyond thought. The truth to which the words point, the timeless dimension of consciousness, cannot be arrived at through discursive thought and conceptual understanding.”