"Knowing yourself is to be rooted in..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.
More by Eckhart Tolle
“Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.”
“Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.”
“Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.”
More on Self Discovery
“What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?”
“You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.”
“Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.”
More on Being
“Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.”
“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.”
“[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am”