"What a liberation to realize that the..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
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“To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”
“You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.”
“The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.”
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“For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves.”
“Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.”
“Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.”
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“Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.”
“Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people - what an airless, shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes! A world not to be lived in. As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes.”
“I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.”