Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
Catalog
Eckhart Tolle
[After] two ducks get into a fight, which never lasts long, they will separate and float off in opposite directions. Then each duck will flap its wings vigorously a few times, thus releasing the surplus energy that built up during the fight. After they flap their wings, they float on peacefully, as…
When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you're doing, you become stressed.
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
Resist nothing.
Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it.
Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness…
...'Die before you die' ― and find that there is no death.
Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the ‘love’ of ego. However, the intensity with which true love is felt can vary. There may be one person who reflects your love back…
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let the feeling turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyze. Don't make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is…
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world, we call a butterfly.
See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge.…
Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.