Eckhart Tolle citáty

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„Čokoľvek súčasný okamih so sebou prinesie, prijmi to, akoby si to bol sám vybral.“

„Nechať veci ísť je niekedy aktom oveľa väčšej sily, ako brániť sa alebo vydržať.“

„Minulosť nemá žiadnu moc na to, aby vám zabránil žiť teraz v prítomnosti. To dokáže len vaša ľútosť nad minulosťou.“

„Milovať znamená spoznať samého seba v niekom inom.“

„Vždy, keď sa vám stane niečo negatívne, skrýva sa v tom hlboká lekcia.“

„Uvedomte si, že prítomný okamih je všetko, čo máte. Urobte z TERAZ primárne zameranie vášho života.“

„Nie je ničím výnimočným, že ľudia celý život čakajú na to, aby mohli začať žiť.“

„Veľká časť ľudskej bolesti je zbytočná. Vytvárame si ju sami, kým náš život riadi nepozorovaná myseľ.“

„Mier nenájdete znovu usporiadaním okolností svojho života, ale uvedomením si, kým ste na tej najhlbšej úrovni.“

„Život je tanečník a vy ste tanec.“

„Nemôžeš nájsť seba samého, ak sa vždy vraciaš do minulosti. Seba samého nájdeš len vtedy, ak sa vrátiš do prítomnosti.“

„Dobrým sa nestaneš tým, že sa budeš snažiť byť dobrý, ale tým, že nájdeš dobrotu, ktorá je už v tebe.“

„Môžete stratiť len niečo, čo máte, ale nemôžete stratiť niečo, čím ste.“

„Minulosť nemá v súčasnosti žiadnu moc.“

„Uznanie dobra, ktoré už vo svojom živote máte, je základom všetkej hojnosti.“

„Všetko, čo sa vám nepáči a na čo silno reagujete u druhého, je aj vo vás.“

„Najväčším úspechom ľudstva nie sú umelecké, vedecké alebo technologické diela, ale uvedomenie si vlastnej dysfunkcie.“

„Nie som svoje myšlienky, emócie, zmyslové vnemy a skúsenosti. Nie som obsahom svojho života. Ja som život. Som priestor, v ktorom sa všetky veci dejú. Ja som vedomie.“

“Many things in your life matter but only one thing matters absolutely. It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matters whether you are rich or poor. It certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking. But they don't matter absolutely. There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who your are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”

“Confusion, anger, depression, violence, and conflict arise when humans forget who they are. Yet how easy it is to remember the truth and thus return home: I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.”

“The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: “All things are intrinsically one.” That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.”

“Finding that dimension frees you and the world from the suffering you inflict on yourself and others when the mind-made “little me” is all you know and runs your life. Love, joy, creative expansion, and lasting inner peace cannot come into your life except through that unconditioned dimension of consciousness.”

“The human condition: Lost in thought Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past. In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness. In the ancient teachings, it is the Christ within, or your Buddha nature.”

“Just as the ancient sutras, the writings contained within this book are sacred and have come out of a state of consciousness we may call stillness. Unlike those ancient sutras, however, they don’t belong to any one religion or spiritual tradition, but are immediately accessible to the whole of humanity. There is also an added sense of urgency here. The transformation of human consciousness is no longer a luxury, so to speak, available only to a few isolated individuals, but a necessity if humankind is not to destroy itself.”

“The form of this book can be seen as a revival for the present age of the oldest form of recorded spiritual teachings: the sutras of ancient India. Sutras are powerful pointers to the truth in the form of aphorisms or short sayings, with little conceptual elaboration. The Vedas and Upanishads are the early sacred teachings recorded in the form of sutras, as are the words of the Buddha. The sayings and parables of Jesus, too, when taken out of their narrative context, could be regarded as sutras, as well as the profound teachings contained in the Tao Te Ching, the ancient Chinese book of wisdom. The advantage of the sutra form lies in its brevity...”

“If you come to a spiritual teacher — or this book — looking for stimulating ideas, theories, beliefs, intellectual discussions, then you will be disappointed. This is not a book to be read from cover to cover and then put away. Live with it, pick it up frequently, and more importantly, put it down frequently, or spend more time holding it than reading it. Many readers will feel naturally inclined to stop reading after each entry, to pause, reflect, become still. It is always more helpful and more important to stop reading than to continue reading. Allow the book to do its work, to awaken you from the old grooves of your repetitive and conditioned thinking.”

“A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being.”

“You don't think, you are being thought by thought.”