Note to self - remember this

Quotes from Eckart Tolle's book, A New Earth.  

In fact, the more you make your thoughts into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of the human existence.

Whatever action you take in a state of inner resistance will create more outer resistance, and the universe will not be on your side; life will not be helpful.

And what you react to in another, you strengthen in yourself.

Your greatest protection, however, is being conscious.

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right.  Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgment, a story.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

The fire of suffering becomes the light of consciousness.

Many people are truly their own worst enemy.

Emotions exist within the realm of opposites.

Every human being emanates an energy field that corresponds to his or her inner state . . . 

In Zen . . . Satori is a moment of Presence, a brief stepping out of the voice in your head, the thought processes and their reflection in the body as emotion.

What matters to you is not necessarily what you say or believe, but what your actions and reactions reveal as important and serious to you.

The world always makes sure that you cannot fool yourself for long about who you really think you are by showing you what truly matters to you.  How you react to people and situations, especially when challenges arise, is the best indicator of how deeply you know yourself.

The fact is: Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

You cannot receive what you don't give.  Outflow determines inflow.

Only if we are still enough inside and the noise of thinking subsides can we become aware that there is a hidden harmony here, a sacredness, a higher order in which everything has its perfect place and could not be other than what it is and the way it is.

To be in alignment with what is means to be in a relationship of inner nonresistance with what happens.

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness.