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Not a destination.","source":"Roy Goodman","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":33,"createdById":1,"quote":"Those who know they have enough are truly wealthy","source":"Tao Te Ching","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":32,"createdById":1,"quote":"Any time we think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem","source":"Steven Covey","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":31,"createdById":1,"quote":"Sitting quietly, doing nothing,\nSpring comes, and the grass grows by itself.","source":"Matsuo Bashō","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":30,"createdById":1,"quote":"Imagine all the versions of you in the multiverse. You get to choose which one you want to be.","source":"r/motivation","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":29,"createdById":1,"quote":"When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in power ... leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.","source":"Eckhart Tolle","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":28,"createdById":1,"quote":"Either stop doing what you are doing, speak to the person concerned and express fully what you feel, or drop the negativity that your mind has created around the situation and that serves no purpose whatsoever except to strengthen a false sense of self","source":"Eckhart Tolle","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":27,"createdById":1,"quote":"Whether your thoughts and emotions about this situation are justified or not makes no difference","source":"Eckhart Tolle","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":26,"createdById":1,"quote":"There are no problems, only situations","source":"Eckhart Tolle, Sadhguru, Mike (Jamaican tour guide)...","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":25,"createdById":1,"quote":"One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you do not live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer and you are the dance.","source":"Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth)","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":24,"createdById":1,"quote":"Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am. That I cannot find myself in all those things that continuously pass away.","source":"Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth)","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":23,"createdById":1,"quote":"As long as you are unaware of being, you will seek meaning only within the dimension of doing and of future. That is to say the dimension of time. And whatever meaning or fulfillment you find will disolve or turn out to have been a deception.","source":"Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth)","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":22,"createdById":1,"quote":"When you recognize that the present moment is always already the case, and therefore inevitable, you can bring an uncompromising inner yes to it","source":"Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth)","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":21,"createdById":1,"quote":"Emotion, in itself, is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness.","source":"Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth)","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":20,"createdById":1,"quote":"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.","source":"Shakespeare (Hamlet)","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":19,"createdById":1,"quote":"Everything will be okay when you are okay with everything.","source":"Michael A. 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Wilson","favorite":false,"visibility":"public"},{"id":13,"createdById":1,"quote":"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.","source":"Edward O. 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