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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Spiritual

"You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So while your inner purpose is to negate time, your outer purpose necessarily involves future and so could not exist without time. But it is always secondary. Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary."

Spiritual Taken Sight
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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Spiritual

"This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified with their thought process, they don't get it. They write reviews or articles and they miss the whole point. They can't see the essence. It's not their fault; it's not them personally. It's the human condition and its mind-identified state. And intelligence in itself doesn't help. You can have two or three Ph.D.s; it doesn't get you any closer to spiritual realization. In fact, you might be more distant."

Writing Book Spiritual
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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Spiritual

"Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie."

Children Spiritual Reading
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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Spiritual

"When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest joy is to benobody, to relinquish the function of a teacher. It's a temporary function."

People Spiritual Teacher
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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Spiritual

"To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly."

Spiritual Grace Gone
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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
Spiritual

"The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him."

Men Needs Spiritual
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Plato Philosopher
Spiritual

"The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good."

Spiritual Perfect Design
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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
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"This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down."

Spiritual Order Joy
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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Spiritual

"It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality."

Reality Spiritual Illumination
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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
Spiritual

"Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations."

Self Spiritual Skins
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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure."

Spiritual Struggle Keys
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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food"

Spiritual Soul Inward
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