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Quotes About Existence

Even a stone has rudimentary consciousness; otherwise, it would not be, and its atoms and molecules would disperse. Everything is alive. The sun, the earth, plants, animals, humans — all are expressions of consciousness in varying degrees, consciousness manifesting as form.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Everything is alive. The sun, the earth, plants, animals, humans - all are expressions of consciousness in varying degrees, consciousness manifesting as form.
~ Eckhart Tolle
In the proximity of death, the whole concept of ownership stands revealed as ultimately meaningless.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level. It does not concern what you do but what you are—that is to say, your state of consciousness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas
~ Eckhart Tolle
Presence removes time. Without time, no suffering, no negativity, can survive.
~ Eckhart Tolle
you are. Even if people agree with it, it is ultimately a fiction. Many people don't realize until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they
~ Eckhart Tolle
Why is [the now] the most precious thing? Firstly, because it is the only thing. It's all there is. The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be. Secondly, the Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of your mind. It is your only point of access to the timeless and formless realm of Being.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I was convinced that all the answers to the dilemmas of human existence could be found through the intellect, that is to say, by thinking. I didn't realize yet that thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing, the same nothing. They are an externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence. Most humans are completely unconscious of this dimension. There is no inner space, no stillness. They are out of balance. [...] They identify exclusively with their own physical and psychological form, unconscious of essence.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Salvation is not elsewhere in place or time. It is here and now.
~ Eckhart Tolle
time is the fourth dimension of space. He calls it the "space-time continuum.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Tajna života jest »umrijeti prije smrti« - i otkriti kako smrt ne postoji.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Sto se više usredoto?ite na vrijeme - na prošlost i budu?nost - to više propuštate Sadašnji trenutak, najdragocjenije što postoji.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Perceiving presence is what true awakening is all about.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now.
~ Eckhart Tolle
You are that awareness, disguised as a person.
~ Eckhart Tolle
In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the oldest and most beautiful spiritual teachings in existence, nonattachment to the fruit of your action is called Karma Yoga. It is described as the path of "consecrated action.
~ Eckhart Tolle
And the ego's greatest enemy of all is, of course, the present moment, which is to say, life itself.
~ Eckhart Tolle
What I could there be apart from life, apart from Being? It is utterly impossible. So there is no such thing as my life, and I don't have a life. I am life. I and life are one.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Ono što je stvarno nikada ne može umrijeti; umiru samo imena, oblici i prividi.
~ Eckhart Tolle
All that is required to become free of the ego is to be aware of it, since awareness and ego are incompatible. Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence. The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.
~ Eckhart Tolle
More consciousness means a lessening of the illusion of materiality.
~ Eckhart Tolle