Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ul...

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the ene...

The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spir...

Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destruc...

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge...

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation tha...

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the onl...

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present mo...

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about...

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhap...

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life...

the ego likes to emphasize the 'otherness' of others

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true...

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongl...

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

To love is to recognize yourself in another.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into ...

Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner...

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future ...

I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- ...

Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is...

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion...

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every...

I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “probl...

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more f...

Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.

Some churches, sects, cults, or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigi...

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those thin...

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and k...

The past has no power over the present moment.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of cons...

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmani...

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in y...

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the...

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and ...

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at th...

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stilln...

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness has identifie...

Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.

Stay present, stay conscious.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matte...

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this wor...

How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your stat...

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see...

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is there is no past or future except as memory or an...

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed ...

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human min...

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your ...

Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionall...

The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive re...

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you're doing, you become st...

Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, which in turn creates our consumer soci...

To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created e...

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ...

When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different ...

Man made God in his own image...

why Human should not look at the past?

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the ...

What you usually refer to when you say “I” is not who you are. By a monstrous act of reductionism, t...

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true...

Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigid...

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to...

Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is no...

I don't know" is not confusion. Confusion is "I don't know, but I should know" or "I don't know, but...

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your l...

A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's...

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can...

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How ...

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your l...

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with ...

Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remark...

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and t...

In normal everyday usage, "I" embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illu...

If there were nothing but thought in you. You wouldn't even know your thinking. You would be like a ...

You can only be in a state of non-reaction if you can recognize someone's behavior as coming from th...

A woman in her thirties came to see me. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite ...

With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.

Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, o...

In many cases you are not buying a product but an “identity enhancer.” Designer labels are primarily...

What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through thi...

Mind isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility aris...

Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply res...

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the sp...

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.