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“If not now, when?”
― Eckhart Tolle

“When a problem is disturbing you, don't ask, "What should I do about it?" Ask, "What part of me is being disturbed by this?”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.”
― Groucho Marx

“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”
― Groucho Marx

“Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.”
― Groucho Marx

“I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”
― Muhammad Ali

“Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.”
― Johnny Carson

“I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.”
― Oscar Wilde

“She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.”
― Joan Rivers

“If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.”
― Groucho Marx

“Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.”
― Groucho Marx

“Infinite patience produces immediate results.”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume

“Rest does not come from sleeping but from waking.”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles

“The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles

“You look on chaos and proclaim it as yourself.”
― Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles: Workbook for Students/Manual for Teachers

“You are the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. This is how a man must think of himself in his heart, because this is what he is.”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles

“Remember that no one is where he is by accident, and chance plays no part in God’s plan.”
― Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles

“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend that you experiment with this from time to time. For example, when someone criticizes you, blames you, or calls you names, instead of immediately retaliating or defending yourself – do nothing. Allow the self-image to remain diminished and become alert to what that feels like deep inside you. For a few seconds, it may feel uncomfortable, as if you had shrunk in size. Then you may sense an inner speciousness that feels intensely alive. You haven't been diminished at all. In fact, you have expanded. You may then come to an amazing realization: When you are seemingly diminished in some way and remain in absolute non-reaction, not just externally but also internally, you realize that nothing real has been diminished, that through becoming “less,” you become more. When you no longer defend or attempt to strengthen the form of yourself, you step out of identification with form, with mental self-image. Through becoming less (in the ego’s perception), you in fact undergo an expansion and make room for Being to come forward. True power, who you are beyond form, can then shine through the apparently weakened form. This is what Jesus means when he says, “Deny yourself” or “Turn the other cheek.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace. The ego doesn't like to hear this, because if it cannot be reactive and righteous anymore, it will lose strength.”
― Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks

“In fact, the harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain. The mind can never find the solution, nor can it afford to allow you to find the solution, because it is itself an intrinsic part of the “problem.” Imagine a chief of police trying to find an arsonist when the arsonist is the chief of police. You will not be free of that pain until you cease to derive your sense of self from identification with the mind, which is to say from ego. The mind is then toppled from its place”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“The ego could be defined simply in this way: a dysfunctional relationship with the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“In normal everyday usage, "I" embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space an time, but also into human nature, referred to as "an optical illusion of consciousness.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its presence every so often and start acting without fear”
― Dean Cavanagh