If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.

—Eckhart Tolle

About Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle ( EK-art TOL-ə; German: [ˈɛkhaʁt ˈtɔlə]; born Ulrich Leonard Tölle, 16 February 1948) is a German “spiritual teacher” 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...

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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

—Eckhart Tolle

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.

—Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth

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Sometimes letting go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

—Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

—Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth

out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence.… It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, and every word.

—Eckhart Tolle

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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

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I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

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Grief is an unfillable hole in your body. It should be weightless, but it's heavy. Should be cold, but it burns. Should, over time, close up, but instead it deepens.

—Emily Henry in A Million Junes

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Unless you've touched a corpse before, you can't comprehend the visceral wrongness of inert flesh wrapped around an inanimate object that wears your mother's face. You feel sick with guilt and regret and sadness about inconsequential anecdote. You can't remember anything thoughtful or sweet or tender that you ever did even though logically you know you must have. All you can recall is how often you were small and petty and false. She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and now she's gone.

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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

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