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Экхард Толле. “Живи сейчас” – Цитаты из книги

11.07.2008 :: Обзоры книг

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• “I cannot tell you any
  spiritual truth that deep within you don’t know already. All I can do
  is remind you of what you have forgotten”
• “The mind is a superb
  instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very
  destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use
  your mind wrongly-you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.”
• “all the things that truly
  matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from
  beyond the mind”
• “All true artists, whether
  they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner
  stillness”
• “Emotion arises at the place
  where mind and body meet. It is the body’s reaction to your mind – or
  you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body”
• “It wasn’t through the mind,
  through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body
  were created and are being sustained”
• “You may not yet be able to
  bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but
  it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you
  can become aware.”
• “Love, joy, and peace cannot
  flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance”
• “Pleasure is always derived
  from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within”
• “Pain is inevitable as long as
  you are identified with your mind”
• “Nobody’s life is entirely
  free of pain and sorrow. Isn’t it a question of learning to live with
  them rather than trying to avoid them?
• The greater part of human pain
  is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs
  your life.
• The pain that you create now
  is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious
  resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some
  form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of
  negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of
  resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how
  strongly you are identified with your mind.”
• “Where there is anger, there
  is always pain underneath”
• “The psychological condition
  of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It
  comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension,
  dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of
  something that might happen, not of something that is happening
  now.”
• “an emotion is the body’s
  reaction to your mind”
• “Power over others is weakness
  disguised as strength. True power if within, and it is available to
  you now”
• “The most common ego
  identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social
  status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance,
  special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief
  systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious,
  and other collective identifications. None of these is you.”
• “Death is a stripping away of
  all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” –
  and find that there is no death”
• “When you are present, you can
  allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The
  mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek
  your self in it and mistake it for who you are” – Page 40
• “To be identified with your
  mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost
  exclusively through memory and anticipation”
• “Life is now. There was never
  a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be”
• “Nothing ever happened in the
  past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future;
  it will happen in the Now”
• “The quality of your
  consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future – which, of
  course, can only be experienced as the Now”
• “Unease, anxiety, tension,
  stress, worry – all forms of fear – are cause by too much future, and
  not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness,
  bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much
  past, and not enough presence”
• “To be free of time is to be
  free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future
  for your fulfillment”
• “Be at least as interested in
  what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside
  right, the outside will fall into place”
• “Wherever you are, be there
  totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you
  unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation,
  change it, or accept it totally”
• “You cannot find yourself by
  going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the
  present”
• “…words in themselves are
  not important. They are not the Truth; they only point to it”
• “Don’t get stuck on the level
  of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It’s an
  abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself”
• “At the deepest level of
  Being, you are one with all that is”
• “…the ultimate purpose of
  the world lies not within the world but in the transcendence of the
  world”
• “You find God the moment you
  realize that you don’t need to seek God”
• “[Relationships] do not cause
  pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is
  already in you”
• “As far as inner
  transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You
  cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your
  partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for
  transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter”
• “Whenever anything negative
  happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although
  you may not see it at the time”
• “It seems that most people
  need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will
  relinquish resistance and accept – before they will forgive.”
• “You must have failed deeply
  on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the
  spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and
  meaningless and so turned out to be a failure”
• “Nothing out there will ever
  satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to
  experience many disappointments before you realize that truth”

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