"By watching the mechanics of the mind,..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle
By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.
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“The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.”
“The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.”
“In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.”
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“Never go to sleepwithout a request to your subconscious.”
“The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.”
“The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.”
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“When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.”
“Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or someone else.”
“I've received more and more emails from teachers saying that they are beginning to teach presence in their classroom without necessarily calling it that or calling it anything, not as part of the official curriculum. It's like an underground movement not yet officially recognized by the educational authorities - at least not as far as I know!”