Eckhart Tolle A New Earth Quotations
I read Eckhart Tolle A New Earth
A New Earth Chapter 1
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.
They realize how spiritual you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle A New Earth Chapter 2
When you yield internally, when you surrender, a new dimension of consciousness opens up. If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle A New Earth Chapter 3
What you react to in another, you strengthen in yourself.
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that [the grievance] has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self; to keep the ego in place.
The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.
Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
The only thing that ultimately matters is this: Can I sense my essential Beingness, the I Am, in the background of my life at all times?
Eckhart Tolle A New Earth Chapter 4
The playing of negative roles becomes particularly pronounced whenever the ego is magnified by an active pain-body, that is to say, emotional pain from the past that wants to renew itself through experiencing more pain.
When you play roles, you are unconscious.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
If there is awareness in you, you no longer need to believe in every thought you think. It’s an old thought, no more. Awareness means Presence, and only Presence can dissolve the unconscious past in you.
“How can I be myself?” is, in fact, the wrong question. It implies you have to do something to be yourself. But how doesn’t apply here because you are yourself already. Just stop adding unnecessary baggage to who you already are.
Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.
So, whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware at that moment that there is something in your that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens, your identity has shifted from ego to awareness.
The moment you become aware of the negative state within yourself, it does not mean you have failed. It means that you have succeeded. Until that awareness happens, there is identification with inner states, and such identification is ego.
Eckhart Tolle A New Earth Chapter 5
The density of the ego depends on the degree to which you–the consciousness–are identified with your mind, with thinking.
To see one’s predicament clearly is a first step toward going beyond it.
Emotion is the body’s reaction to your mind.
Although the body is very intelligent, it coannot tell the difference between an actual situation and a thought. It reacts toe very thought is if it were a reality.
The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.
Any emotionally painful experience can be used as food by the pain-body. That’s why it thrives on negative thinking as well as drama in relationships. The pain-body is an addiction to unhappiness.
…a positive thought has a totally different feeling-tone than a negative one. It is the same energy, but it vibrates at a different frequency. A happy, positive thought is indigestible to the pain-body.
Thoughts have their own range of frequencies, with negative thoughts at the lover end of the scale and positive thoughts at the higher. The vibrational frequency of the pain-body resonates with that of negative thoughts, which is why only those thoughts can feed the pain-body.
It is always the case that both victim and perpetrator suffer the consequences of any acts of violence, oppression, or brutality. For what you do to others, you do to yourself.
Eckhart Tolle A New Earth Chapter 6
The beginning of freedom from the pain-body lies first of all in the realization that you have a pain-body. Then, more important, in your ability to stay present enough, alert enough, to notice the pain-body in yourself as a heavy influx of negative emotion when it becomes active.
It is your conscious presence that breaks the identification with the pain-body. When you don’t identify with it, the pain-body can no longer control your thinking and so cannot renew itself anymore by feeding on your thoughts.
Eckhart Tolle A New Earth Chapter 7
Soon after you start giving, you will start receiving. You cannot receive what you don’t give.
Abundance comes only to those who already have it.
What is there other than content? That which enables content to be–the inner space of consciousness.
When the basis of your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.
Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens.
When you react against the form that Life takes at this moment, when you treat the Now as a means, an obstacle, or an enemy, you strengthen your own form identity, the ego.
Eckhart Tolle A New Earth Chapter 8
You can participate in the dance of creation and be active without attachment to outcome and without placing unreasonable demands upon the world.
Presence is a state of inner spaciousness.
Eckhart Tolle A New Earth Chapter 9
Awakening is a shift in consciousness in which thinking and awareness separate.
Your primary purpose is now to enable consciousness to flow into what you do.
But the end and the means are one. And if the means did not contribute to human happiness, neither will the end.
…your entire life journey ultimately consists of the step you are taking at this moment.
A New Earth Chapter 10
Every thought implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitattion, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not absolutely.
We are learning that action, although necessary, is only a secondary factor in manifesting our external reality. The primary factor in creation is consciousness.
Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny.
An enlarged image of yourself or a vision of yourself having this or that are all static goals and therefore don’t empower you. Instead, make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which you are connected to other human beings as well as to the whole.
Quotes from Eckhart Tolle A New Earth
August 31, 2009
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