The Power
of Now
POWERFUL
QUOTES
From
Eckhart
Tolle
Eckhart
Tolle is a Great Spiritualist of our times. His book, The Power of Now
is a great Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment . He tells us how the present
moment holds the key for all of our happiness, sorrows, achievements, failures
and how the whole life is centered around this moment, which he calls as NOW.
See here some of his profound sayings on the present moment :
Ø Realize
deeply that the Present Moment is
all you have. Make the NOW the
primary focus of your life.
Ø If
you get the Inside right, the Outside will fall into place. Primary Reality is within; secondary
reality without.
Ø 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.
Ø It
is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
Ø Your
outer journey may contain a million
steps; your inner journey only has
one: the step you are taking right now.
Ø Nothing
has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
Ø What
a Caterpillar calls the End of the World we call a Butterfly.
Ø Die to the Past
every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely
relevant to the present. Feel the power of This
Moment and the fullness of Being.
Feel Your Presence.
Ø Space and Silence
are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization
of Inner Space and Inner Silence,
which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.
Ø The
pain that you create now is always some form of Non-Acceptance, some form of Unconscious Resistance to what is. On
the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional
level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the
degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how
strongly you are identified with your mind. The mind always seeks to deny the
Now and to escape from it.
Ø The
best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's
challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious
person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more
intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it
to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then
turns into a nightmare.
Ø Thought
cannot exist without Consciousness,
but Consciousness does not need Thought.
Ø Emotions
arise in the place where your mind and body meet.
Ø At
the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is.
Ø All
you really need to do is accept this
moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with
yourself.
Ø True Power is within,
and it is available NOW.
Ø Don't
look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now;
.... Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept
your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you Accept Fully will get you there, will
take you into peace. This is the Miracle
of Surrender.
Ø You are Awareness,
disguised as a person.
Ø Humans have learned to split the atom. Instead of killing
ten or twenty people with a wooden club, one person can now kill a million just by pushing a button. Is that real
change?
Ø Whatever you accept
completely, you go beyond...If you fight it, you're stuck with it.
Ø Resistance is
Weakness and Fear masquerading as
strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence,
and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.
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