Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

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"Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective."

- Eckhart Tolle

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"“Negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.”"

- Eckhart Tolle

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"Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there,’ or being in the present but wanting to be in the future."

- Eckhart Tolle

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"Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand, and becoming comfortable with not knowing."

- Eckhart Tolle

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"To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually."

- Eckhart Tolle

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"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

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"Tuesdays are for chasing rainbows and dancing in the rain."

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"You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness."

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"Taste and see how good the Lord is! The one who takes refuge in him is truly happy!"

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"The joy of brightening other lives becomes for us the magic of the holidays."

- W. C. Jones

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