Top 160 Todd Perelmuter Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Women are a bridge between the spiritual and physical world because only a woman can bring a soul into this world.”

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2. “When you become pure awareness and you just observe what “is” with your attention turned inward, and you really tap into that essence of pure consciousness.”

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3. “When you learn to welcome every challenge and difficulty as an opportunity to grow and learn, no hardship or pain can generate suffering.”

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4. “The way you perceive the world is how you experience the world.”

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5. “When you can become aware of awareness, that’s the higher consciousness and it’s within you. So, instead of looking to the universe for a sign, look inward.”

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6. “You are not your trauma. You are not your circumstances. You are that eternal unchanging light of consciousness. Your true nature cannot be hurt. Your body can be hurt, your property can be lost. But no one can touch the real you.”

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7. “If you can’t change your circumstances, change the way you perceive them.”

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8. “Self-loathing is a terrible affliction born out of the false perception that we are our thoughts. It divides each of us into two people rather than being one whole complete person. This illusion falsely implies you can love or hate yourself, but in reality, you can’t have a relationship with yourself. You simply are you. A relationship with yourself can only happen if you believe you are split in two. By recognizing your one true self, all self-loathing ceases to be.”

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9. “You have all the answers within you. To stop seeking for answers outside of you is the start of being found. You are the answer. You are your guru. There are no questions to be answered. More importantly, there are no questions that need to be asked.”

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10. “Anger, temper, rage and aggression stem from weakness and fragility. Compassion, patience, calmness and composure stem from strength and confidence.”

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11. “Permanence is an illusion. Attachment is a delusion. The only thing that is real and everlasting is nothing at all. The only permanence is impermanence.”

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12. “Whether it’s ignoring our problems, ignoring negative emotions, ignoring physical or psychological pain, to ignore is the root of ignorance.”

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13. “Don’t spend your life perfecting temporary circumstances. Spend it perfecting the way you experience them.”

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14. “Things, objects, places and people will not bring you lasting joy. Without inner joy and peace, they will bring you momentary pleasure followed by boredom and then anger. True happiness truly does come from within.”

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15. “All suffering is mind-made. Where is suffering in the world? In pain? No. In harsh words people say? How could sounds spoken cause suffering? Suffering only exists in our anticipation of events unfavorable to the mind due to desires not met, or regrets from the past that live as memories in our mind.”

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16. “Every single thing we do stems from the quality of our mind. Our lives are reflections of our state of mind. Minds can be chaotic and stressful, or peaceful and grateful. It’s a simple choice we make in every single moment.”

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17. “We’re bombarded with hundreds of thousands of images every single day from advertising to social media to magazines telling us what is beauty, telling us that whatever we look like is not good enough and we need their products. So, let’s not create some kind of artificial standard of beauty as our goal because it really just doesn’t matter.”

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18. “Death is the beginning of the last great adventure and exploration of humanity. Every person gets to go explore this thing that no living person knows about.”

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19. “We cannot grow without pain, and by going through pain and surviving, we become examples to the world that they’re not alone, that they can overcome their pain as well, and that they can do better and get better.”

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20. “How long you can sit quietly and alone with your thoughts in peace is a direct indication of how happy and at peace you really are.”

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21. “Life will go on experiencing the universe as the universe intended. Everything in the universe is perfect and happening exactly the way it should. It’s hard to see that all the time when there’s so much suffering in the world, but it tells us that each of us has more to do, has to wake up further, has more to do towards building a future where everybody can live a fulfilling, safe, and beautiful life.”

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22. “Mindfulness meditation is like putting on the scuba gear and diving deep, tapping into the deep rich sense of peace and bliss that lies when we are just fully present, fully aware and fully alert.”

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23. “All you have to do is close your eyes to disconnect from the material world and enter the spiritual.”

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24. “Instead of avoiding pain and uncomfortable feelings, sit with them. The fear of negative feelings is always worse than the feelings themselves.”

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25. “The universe created us to experience itself through us.”

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26. “Death is the cure for everything.”

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27. “While meditating, we focus on our breath because it’s only happening in the present moment; it is our doorway to the present moment.”

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28. “There is a middle ground, a path of balance, where we can both learn from the past, plan for the future, and still fully appreciate and live in the present moment. To fully live in the present moment is to react to the present moment with full consciousness, with full wisdom and awareness.”

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29. “Every single one of us will get sick and die. Everyone we know and love will too. There’s no escaping, but it is these hardest moments, these most difficult times, that show what we’re truly made of and what we can truly overcome.”

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30. “We all have spiritual moments throughout our lives. That first moment you see a sunset, or a flower, maybe a piece of art, and you just say, “wow!” And in that moment of true awe and wonder, that is the moment we’re all fully present, fully alert, fully appreciative, and there’s a real connection made between the experience and the experiencer. There is no interpreter between them. It is pure presence.”

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31. “There’s a difference between loneliness and aloneness. Loneliness is when being alone causes suffering. But aloneness is ultimately recognizing others as yourself, and when you realize that you are one with everything.”

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32. “Meditation is training your mind in single-pointed focus. It’s essentially the absence of a wandering mind and it creates deep stillness and peace.”

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33. “Make a consistent habit of meditation every day at the same exact time and do not miss it no matter what. It doesn’t matter if you meditated for 10,000 hours if you haven’t done it for 30 years. It needs to be built into a habit.”

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34. “Spirituality to me is about becoming your own therapist. It’s about inner joy and peace so we can be our best version of ourselves. It’s about realizing that everything is connected, that everything has meaning because we give it meaning, awakening from this rollercoaster of life, step off and just marvel at the beauty of it all.”

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35. “As we become rooted in the present moment, as our inner peace and joy radiate from within us through meditation, we will finally be able to find a mate not out of desperation to be free from loneliness, but rather we’ll find someone who, like you, is living life to the fullest and excited to bring a partner on board to share the ride.”

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36. “In reality, our worst nightmares are not as scary as we imagined them to be and it is through challenges only that we learn, grow and evolve.”

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37. “The right teacher or guide will show themselves to you in your life at the right time when you need it so be aware of what happens and be open to experiences.”

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38. “When you remove all these layers of programming that society has created for us – your thoughts, your emotions, your beliefs – what you are left with is your true nature, your true identity which is your infinite eternal consciousness, your awareness, pure consciousness.”

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39. “God and the universe are really interchangeable words. The universe loves us, God loves us. Have faith in the universe, have faith in God. It’s all the same. If God is everywhere then God is the universe and you don’t have to believe in God to believe in the universe.”

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40. “Let go of everything you’re holding on to. Let go of all concepts and your sense of identity, the thoughts of how you feel about every little thing, and just be. Just experience and identify with the one who is aware of experience. Everything we experience can only exist because of our conscious awareness. Nothing happens without it.”

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41. “Spirituality is about being fully present, fully alive, fully alert, fully at peace and in that state of true awe and wonder.”

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42. “The present moment is so much more rich, dynamic, and has so much more depth than anything we can think about, any thought about our future, or some memory from the past. The difference is like seeing in 3D versus 2D.”

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43. “The more conscious of our time we become, the more we start doing things that make us joyful instead of making us miserable – spending more time with friends and family and appreciating ourselves and others for the kind of character that they have.”

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44. “Look close enough at your problems and you’ll see there’s really nothing there at all. Problems only exist in the mind. They’re not real. There are only solutions waiting to be found.”

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45. “Life is all about enjoying the good times while they’re here and knowing they won’t last. And when the bad times come, we know they won’t last either.”

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46. “It’s so common to fear the unknown and fear what we don’t understand, but that’s one of the most important things we can come to accept because it’s the only truth there is. When you have full trust and faith in the universe, there’s nothing to fear.”

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47. “Life is really quite simple: love. The more we complicate this, the further we get from the truth.”

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48. “Without struggles, there would be no striving to be better, to overcome, to acquire the skills and strength to evolve as people. These are struggles that make us beautiful. Without difficulty, without suffering, no one would be on the path to self-actualization.”

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49. “Solitude is a gift in itself, it is our blank canvas to paint our lives. It is a beautiful sacred time, full of infinite possibilities – only limited by your imagination.”

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50. “We can choose our beliefs. We can choose to believe in ourselves. We can choose to believe in any higher power or powers we want. We can choose to believe it will all work out. We just have to believe that we can believe.”

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