Spiritual Quotes (Page 136)

Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival."

Spiritual Religious Survival

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world."

Spiritual Teacher Identity

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve."

Want Spiritual Enlightenment

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment."

Spiritual Focus Attention

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great."

Spiritual Growth Dysfunction

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic scale. No gain in consciousness is ever lost, so it would simply express itself through some other form. But the very fact that I am speaking here and you are listening or reading this is a clear sign that the new consciousness is gaining a foothold on the planet."

Spiritual Reading Listening

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment."

Spiritual Becoming Awakening

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment."

Long Spiritual Knowledge

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching."

People Spiritual Teaching

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially dangerous for spiritual teachers who only have contact with disciples or followers, who may live in an ashram."

People Spiritual Teacher

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them."

People Spiritual Teacher

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had to go through the "Dark Night of the Soul," although for one or two it was very, very quick."

Spiritual Teacher Teaching

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher."

Spiritual Teacher Loss

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and ask me questions. One could say at that point I became a spiritual teacher, although the term did not occur to me then."

Spiritual Teacher Term

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice."

Spiritual May Practice

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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""Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left."

Spiritual Teacher Teaching

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening."

Self Spiritual Humanity

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability to channel, to heal, to foretell the future, or other paranormal powers - all such phenomena are of value and are not to be dismissed, but none of them is in itself indicative of spiritual awakening in a person who experiences them."

Spiritual Misunderstood Adoption

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author

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"People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy and spiritual power that comes through a teacher, especially in a teaching situation, has nothing to do with that person."

Spiritual Teacher Teaching

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"For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully awakened for this to happen, but if it does happen it certainly means you are awakening."

Mean Spiritual Awakening

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