{"author":"Eckhart Tolle","author_id":"Eckhart+Tolle","total_quotes":132,"quotes":[{"text":"Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.","author":"Eckhart Tolle","tags":["church","cults","ego","movements","politics","reality","religion"],"id":422,"author_id":"Eckhart+Tolle"},{"text":"Man made God in his own image...","author":"Eckhart Tolle","tags":["inspirational"],"id":2772,"author_id":"Eckhart+Tolle"},{"text":"Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.","author":"Eckhart Tolle","tags":["life","death","fear "],"id":13713,"author_id":"Eckhart+Tolle"},{"text":"To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth.","author":"Eckhart Tolle","tags":["inspirational"],"id":17556,"author_id":"Eckhart+Tolle"},{"text":"Next time you say 'I have nothing incommon with this person,' remember that you have a great deal in common: A few yearsfrom now - two years or seventy years, it doesn't make much difference - both of you willhave become rotting corpses, then piles of dust, then nothing at all. This is a sobering andhumbling realization that leaves little room for pride. Is this a negative thought? No, it is a fact. Why close your eyes to it? In that sense, there is total equality between you and everyother creature.","author":"Eckhart Tolle","tags":["compassion","meditation"],"id":19489,"author_id":"Eckhart+Tolle"},{"text":"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.","author":"Eckhart Tolle","tags":["cognitive-distortions","emotion","happiness","psychology","situation","thinking","thought","thoughts"],"id":25644,"author_id":"Eckhart+Tolle"},{"text":"Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.","author":"Eckhart Tolle","tags":["body-awareness","eckhart-tolle","eckhart-tolle","ego","present-moment"],"id":28685,"author_id":"Eckhart+Tolle"},{"text":"What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming.","author":"Eckhart Tolle","tags":["consumerism","ego"],"id":29735,"author_id":"Eckhart+Tolle"},{"text":"Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of progress is always more. The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part. Some economists are so attached to the notion of growth that they can't let go of that word, so they refer to recession as a time of 'negative growth'.","author":"Eckhart Tolle","tags":["ego","new-age","spirituality"],"id":32407,"author_id":"Eckhart+Tolle"},{"text":"I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.","author":"Eckhart Tolle","tags":["flower","intelligence","world "],"id":36977,"author_id":"Eckhart+Tolle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":132,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}