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“However, we can learn to ignore them as soon as they appear in our minds by consciously avoiding in these cases to engage yourself in useless “inner chat” with the voice in your head - thus stopping the “birds of sorrow” from “building nests in your hair”.”
― A.J. Parr, Stop Negative Thinking in 7 Easy Steps (7 Lessons & 7 Exercises to Beat Pessimism!): Understanding Eckhart Tolle, Dalai Lama, Krishnamurti and more!

“In sum, the final goal of Self-Inquiry Meditation is to discover that our true Self and true Reality resides in our Heart. As Lord Krishna announced to his dear disciple prince Arjuna in the millenary pages of the “Bhagavad Gita”: “I am the self, established in the hearts of all beings, O Gudakesha. I am the beginning, middle and also the end of all beings… I am seated in the hearts of all, from Me proceed memory, knowledge…”
― A.J. Parr, Stop Negative Thinking in 7 Easy Steps (7 Lessons & 7 Exercises to Beat Pessimism!): Understanding Eckhart Tolle, Dalai Lama, Krishnamurti and more!

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― A.J. Parr, Stop Negative Thinking in 7 Easy Steps (7 Lessons & 7 Exercises to Beat Pessimism!): Understanding Eckhart Tolle, Dalai Lama, Krishnamurti and more!

“Research has also shown that the primary cause of depression is the constant repetition of negative thoughts, as concluded by the American psychologist Albert Ellis (1913-2007), considered the second most influential psychologist of all times by the American Psychological Association (APA), who in 1955 founded the Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy. Ellis determined that “we largely feel according to the way we think” and that what makes us depressive are not our specific personal circumstances, but our “catastrophic” repetitive thoughts and beliefs regarding these circumstances.”
― A.J. Parr, Eckhart Tolle: His Life & Quest For The Power Of Now

“The Buddha said that “to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire”. And according to Eckhart, “to cut the bonds of desire” we need “to cut the inner chatter”.”
― A.J. Parr, Understanding Eckhart Tolle Workbook: 12 Lessons 12 Exercises to Stop Your Inner Chat and Experience The Power of Now!

“The world is like a dream full of attachments and aversions that seems real until the awakening… As the magician is not at any time affected by the magical illusion produced by himself, because it is unreal, so is the highest Self not affected by the illusory visions of his dream, because they do not accompany the waking state and the state of dreamless sleep…”
― A.J. Parr, Meditation in 7 Easy Steps

“A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.”
― A.J. Parr, Eckhart Tolle: His Life & Quest For The Power Of Now

“the primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation itself but your thoughts about it.”
― A.J. Parr, Stop Negative Thinking in 7 Easy Steps (7 Lessons & 7 Exercises to Beat Pessimism!): Understanding Eckhart Tolle, Dalai Lama, Krishnamurti and more!