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, personal and family history, belief systems, and often political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

—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-born 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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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

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

—Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth

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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.

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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.

—Eckhart Tolle

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