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Use These Eckhart Tolle and Tao te Ching Quotes on Gratitude To Jumpstart Your 2021

David Gerken
3 min readDec 31, 2020

I’ve paid twenty bucks a month for ten years to subscribe to Eckhart Tolle’s website. Every week he sends out an email called a present moment reminder that contains a quote from one of his writings. At this point I’ve received several hundred of them.

Out of those hundreds of quotes, twelve have stood out above all others; i.e., I keep them in my email inbox to peruse periodically. And I’m not one of those people with 3,000 emails in his inbox. I keep mine clean and minimal.

My Eckhart only inbox

In fact, guess how many emails I have in my inbox right now? Twelve. Just the Eckhart quotes.

The oldest of these, the one that has stood the longest test of time, is one that I received on February 13, 2013. It is this:

“Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

Wow. I really love this one.

At its core it’s about gratitude. Specifically, it’s about the profound, positive influence that gratitude can bestow on those who choose to centralize it in their lives. It’s about surveying your circumstances and constantly coming down on the side of what you have rather than constantly ruminating about what is missing in…

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David Gerken
David Gerken

Written by David Gerken

Meditation and Mindfulness teacher. Dad of three precious kids. Former writer for THE WEST WING. Follow me at davidgerken.net.

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