Top 160 Todd Perelmuter Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “When you see others, see their light. See their energizing, animating energy. You can do this. See what it is that makes this person different than if you were looking at their lifeless corps. See your inner light in them.”

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102. “Mindfulness is really about becoming aware of awareness itself and when we do this we identify more with the observer inside us and we identify less with the thoughts in our head.”

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103. “It’s not easy to meditate when you’ve spent decades constantly thinking, constantly doing, constantly being entertained, and constantly buried in work or pleasure. But that is why we must use this moment right here, right now, to undo that habit of compulsively looking for what’s next, seeking pleasure, and avoiding pain. And start training our minds to be present and at peace in everything we do.”

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104. “Make every activity in your life a meditation practice by being fully present in whatever you’re doing because that’s what meditation is.”

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105. “We don’t see the world how it is. We see the world how we are.”

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106. “To truly change the way we approach love, we have to go to the source of everything we do: our minds.”

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107. “So much suffering comes because we believe that our thoughts are who we are. So the more we become mindful of our thoughts, the more we can just witness without attachment and identification, making our suffering disappear.”

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108. “We’ve all been everybody and we’ll all be everybody. The same life-force energy that animated the first single-celled organism, pumps through you and me. In an unbroken chain. All life is connected and one.”

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109. “Every single thing about you will change. Your tastes, opinions, thoughts and preferences will change. Your body will become frail. Your sense may fade. But, the light of consciousness within you will never change, will never flicker, and will never dim. This is the eternal you.”

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110. “Our senses are the doorway to the present moment and the more we expand our awareness in every moment, the less we’re lost in our thoughts, and the more we’re fully living and getting the most out of our lives.”

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111. “The start of acceptance is really the start of looking closely at what we don’t want to see, what we don’t like, and have a hard time accepting; because that’s the part that needs to be accepted. So look in those dark corners and shine there so brightly with love and self-love until there are no more dark corners left.”

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112. “We all have an infinite wellspring of love and healing within us just waiting to be tapped into.”

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113. “The true source of our life is our consciousness and awareness, without which we’d just be a robot or a computer with no operator.”

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114. “Oftentimes it is the people who suffered the most who have the quickest and easiest path to enlightenment and self-actualization. This is because they’ve been through so much. They are survivors. They are fighters and if that is you, we need your lessons. We need your example, so share it with the world. You are the light that will lead the way out for so many people.”

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115. “Death is the great equaliser. No matter how rich or how poor, we’re all going in the same direction.”

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116. “At the current state of human evolution, we judge others based on their appearance. Until we learn to love all beings deep down, we will continue hating certain beings. There is only love in oneness.”

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117. “Nobody is perfect, no one has a perfect life. We’re all doing our best to live our best lives, and in this process we all make mistakes. So, there’s no reason to be harder on ourselves than we would be on anyone else just because we identify with the life we think we possess rather than the life that we actually are.”

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118. “We’re so used to having expectations in every aspect of our lives. We put these expectations on ourselves, we’re very hard on ourselves, we expect perfection from ourselves and we want to measure achievements and goals and track our progress. But in meditation, we put all that aside and focus on just being.”

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119. “Get into a flow of action without distraction.”

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120. “Some people think meditation is a passive state where you’re just resting, but in fact you’re at a heightened level of focus, heightened level of attention, heightened level of awareness, and this state is a truly zen state of bliss.”

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121. “What matters the most is how good a person is, not how good their follower count is. So, the best thing you can do is to nourish your own inner kindness and compassion.”

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122. “The first step to changing our likes and dislikes starts with becoming aware of the fact that you can choose them.”

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123. “Whenever we are going down a negative downward spiral, we should turn our attention to our breath and become aware. This can stop the negative stream of thought.”

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124. “There can be no success without difficulty because otherwise everyone would be equally successful and it wouldn’t be called success. There must be the challenge, the discipline, the fortitude that is only developed and forged in fire.”

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125. “Solitude is nothing to fear and it shouldn’t be a motivating factor to find love because if it is, it will set the relationship up to be a co-dependent relationship.”

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126. “The more you allow your mind to be present without being bombarded with thoughts, opinions and judgments, the more peace and spaciousness you’re going to feel in your life.”

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127. “Once you become aware of all the tactics your mind is using to sabotage your peace and happiness, you can use your conscious mind to reframe your opinions, create new more positive beliefs, and create a new you.”

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128. “Do you think there are smartphones in the afterlife? Because if not, lots of people are going to be very miserable in heaven.”

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129. “Meditation is not about the time you’re sitting down with your eyes closed. It’s about how that time impacts the rest of your day and the rest of your life. Meditation isn’t just for sitting either. Every single moment of our lives can be a meditation.”

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130. “Relationships are about two complete people coming together and being one, not about two half-people who have holes in them and are only looking for somebody to fill them up.”

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131. “We get attached to certain people and forms and things and situations. The truth is, nothing lasts. Things will always change. There is nothing we forget more than this.”

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132. “In the present moment, all our obsession with every little thing stops because most of what we obsess about happened in the past or something we’re worried about happening in the future.”

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133. “In meditation, states of deep focus and concentration are developed, leading to deeper levels of contemplation. With greater peacefulness and heightened awareness, the wisdom and clarity that arises can be directed towards any problem a person may need to solve.”

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134. “There are times when we are going through a difficult time, and it becomes the hardest to see any good that can come from our suffering. The nature of reality is that struggles help us reach our true potential. There can be no success without failure and there can be no achievement without defeat. These are the stepping stones, the stumbling blocks, on our path to greatness, love, peace and joy.”

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135. “Anxiety can often make us closed off to the world. Taking risks and putting yourself out there can become an insurmountable obstacle. Letting go of our anxiety doesn’t just improve our life. It improves the lives of those around us as well.”

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136. “There are so many different kinds of meditation and they’re each incredibly valuable, profound and have different amazing benefits. So, there’s no reason to limit yourself to just one type of meditation.”

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137. “The road to peace lies inside.”

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138. “There is no beginning and there is no end. When was time born? When will time die? Why would we even think of beginnings and endings? There is only change. We grow from the soil and we will return to it as food for the future.”

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139. “We almost fail to see the blessings we have and we focus solely on what someone else has that we don’t have.”

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140. “We suffer because we crave things we don’t have and we resist things that we don’t want.”

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141. “Anything in the now is so much richer than anything that our minds are imagining and creating.”

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142. “We are that light of consciousness and it’s the same light that’s in you and me and everyone else.”

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143. “To experience every situation as new and miraculous, you have to focus on your senses instead of focusing on the sense objects.”

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144. “When we are just in the moment, there are no doubts, there are no worries, and there’s no room for anxiety.”

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145. “Isn’t it funny we talk about mind control but we can’t even control our own mind?”

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146. “The cause of all suffering is the desire for something to be different from what it currently is. And to fight this, you have to start practicing acceptance, positivity, and unattachment to any outcome.”

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147. “The universe is unfolding in the only way it possibly can, sometimes maybe not as we desire but always in a way we can accept and learn from and grow from.”

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148. “The heightened awareness that comes from mindfulness can really increase our enjoyment of everything.”

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149. “Everyone is trying to be some idealized version that’s mostly created by Hollywood or put out by the fashion industry and amplified by social media. But it’s not healthy to be constantly inundated by all of these images and comparing ourselves to the most beautiful person on the planet. Accept yourself for who you are and be confident in who you are and that you are the miracle of life itself.”

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150. “We’re either making good habits or bad habits. We’re either training our minds to be unfocused and unhappy, or we’re training them to find peace and happiness within.”

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