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Eckhart Tolle Quotes: Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.
         

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.


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When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.



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When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.



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When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.



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Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.



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Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.



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