Quotes About Fulfillment

What the world doesn't tell you—because it doesn't know—is that you cannot become successful. You can only be successful. Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment. And what is that? There is a sense of quality in what you do, even the most simple action. Quality implies care and attention, which come with awareness. Quality requires your Presence.

if mental development and increased knowledge are not counterbalanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness, the potential for unhappiness and disaster is very great.

You are always trying to get "home" but never feel at home.

Buddha taught that the root of suffering is to be found in our constant wanting and craving.

The prosperity of today becomes the empty consumerism of tomorrow.

Unease, restlessness, boredom, anxiety, dissatisfaction, are the result of unfulfilled wanting. Wanting is structural, so no amount of content can provide lasting fulfillment as long as that mental structure remains in place. Intense wanting that has no specific can often be found in the still-developing ego of teenagers, some of whom are in a permanent state of negativity and dissatisfaction.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. The very thing that gives you pleasure today will give you pain tomorrow, or it will leave you, so its absence will give you pain.

Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them — while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease.

nothing can satisfy the ego for long. As long as it runs your life, there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.

compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

You are here to enable the divinepurpose of the universe to unfold.That is how important you are! — Eckhart Tolle

What the world doesn't tell you—because it doesn't know—is that you cannot become successful. You can only be successful. Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

What the world doesn't tell you—because it doesn't know—is that you cannot become successful. You can only be successful.

After that, the outer purpose is just a game that you may continue to play simply because you enjoy it.

through nonresistance, nonjudgment, and non-attatchment] you can participate in the dance of creation and be active without attachment to outcome and without placing unreasonable demands upon the world: fulfil me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world can not give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self-created suffering comes to an end.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

El viaje de su vida tiene un propósito externo y otro interno. El propósito externo es llegar a su meta o destino, lograr lo que decide hacer, alcanzar esto o aquello, lo que por supuesto, implica futuro.

Does it matter whether we achieve our outer purpose, whether we succeed or fail in the world? It will matter to you as long as you haven't realized your inner purpose. After that, the outer purpose is just a game that you may continue to play simply because you enjoy it.

abundance comes only to those who already have it

The moment your attention turns to the Now, you feel a presence, a stillness, a peace. You no longer depend on the future for fulfillment and satisfaction — you don't look to it for salvation. Therefore, you are not attached to the results. Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being. You have found the life underneath your life situation. In

When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, that Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.

The mind is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you? It constantly projects itself into the future to ensure its continued survival and to seek some kind of release or fulfillment there.

people will often enter into a compulsive pursuit of ego-gratification and things to identify with in order to fill this hole they feel within. So they strive after possessions, money, success, power, recognition, or a special relationship, basically so that they can feel better about themselves, feel more complete.

The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form.