Gabriel Arancibia > Gabriel's Quotes

“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“All things that truly matter - beauty , love , creativity ,joy , inner-peace - arise from beyond the mind .”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?”
― Eckhart Tolle

“What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“You are awareness, disguised as a person.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“you are never fully here because you are always busy trying to get elsewhere.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time -- surrendered to life.”
― Eckhart Tolle, Guardians of Being

“Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the
waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life - it is very fleeting

Do not identify with your thoughts - continued indentification with the stream of thinking leads to a very serious dysfunction in ones sense of identity...”
― Eckhart Tolle

“You are not your mind”
― Eckhart Tolle

“When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event—through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you—ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Create a Better Life

“You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how
important you are.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.”
― Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks

“You also realize that all the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. “Spare some change?” mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his old baseball cap. “I have nothing to give you,” said the stranger. Then he asked: “What’s that you are sitting on?” “Nothing,” replied the beggar. “Just an old box. I have been sitting on it for as long as I can remember.” “Ever looked inside?” asked the stranger. “No,” said the beggar. “What’s the point? There’s nothing in there.” “Have a look inside,” insisted the stranger. The beggar managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold. I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look inside. Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere even closer: inside yourself.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Don’t seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“If you have ever been in a life-or-death emergency situation, you will know that it wasn’t a problem. The mind didn’t have time to fool around and make it into a problem. In a true emergency, the mind stops; you become totally present in the Now, and something infinitely more powerful takes over.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“And it is from inner space, the unconditioned consciousness itself, that true happiness, the joy of Being, emanates.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr