"The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.












I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

More Eckhart Tolle quotes
"You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
"The past has no power over the present moment.
"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
"Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and...
"You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness has identified with. That's the peace of God. The ultimate trut...
"Stay present, stay conscious.
"How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness.
"Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from...
"Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure...
"Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
"I don't know" is not confusion. Confusion is "I don't know, but I should know" or "I don't know, but I need to know." When you fully accept that you d...
"Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and lov...
"Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.
"Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.Let it teach you Being.Let it teach you integrity — which m...