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"The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory."
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Eckhart Tolle"Right now we are being given the experience we need to raise our consciousness."
Eckhart Tolle is a German “spiritual researcher” and self-help author. His books include The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997), A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (2005) and the picture book Guardians of Being (2009).
"The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory."
"Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within."
"Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?"
"You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now."
"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself."
"All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind."