Eckhart Tolle

“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“This, too, will pass.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Accept the present moment without judgement.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond. If you fight it, you’re stuck with it.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Presence is a state of inner spaciousness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Every being is a spark of the Divine, or God. Look into the eyes of the dog and sense that innermost core. When you are present, you can sense the spirit, the one consciousness, in every creature and love it as yourself.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The future never comes. Life is always now.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don’t try to understand or explain.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment – allow it to be as it is – then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Through being “right”, you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Spiritual awakening – is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that’s what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what is it that is required now so that life can express itself more fully?” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“All problems are illusions of the mind.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the other human being that arises. You enjoy it. There is deep joy in the meeting.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can’t argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don’t realize it, but all they ever have is “this”. This moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“When there’s a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Where ever you are, be there totally.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you’re trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body’s reaction to your mind – or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“One conscious breathe in and out is a meditation.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Complaining is one of the ego’s favorite strategies for strengthening itself.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people. Transcendence of the world is to act and to interact without any self-seeking.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn’t.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“For many people, illness – loss of health – represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self mastery tool that keeps realigning me with my higher purpose for living.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Everything is honoured, but nothing matters.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the Dance.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Forgive yourself for not being at peace.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you’re back in time.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Presence is when you’re no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You get there by realizing you are already there.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Become conscious of being conscious.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it’s just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions – what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so – your resistance is.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: “I allow this moment to be as it is”. And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn’t. And while your happy moments may be rare, your dog celebrates life continuously.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The world can only change from within.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“True communication is communion-the realization of oneness, which is love.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” – and find that there is no death.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of “me” based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“When I’m with people, I’m a spiritual teacher. That’s the function, but it’s not my identity. The moment I’m alone, my deepest joy is to benobody, to relinquish the function of a teacher. It’s a temporary function.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The only thing you ever have is now.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You create a good future by creating a good present.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Non- reaction is not weakness, But Strength!” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it’s usually lodged, in the thinking mind.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Die to the past every moment. You don’t need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Doing is never enough if you neglect being.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who sees that.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Observe your thoughts, don’t believe them.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is karma. Action that arises out of a state of “acceptance” is totally free of karma. And there is a vast difference.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Be present as the watcher of your mind – of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that’s the ego in you.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Die before you die and find that there is no death.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Be aware of your breathing as often as you are able, whenever you remember. Do that for one year, and it will be powerfully transformative. And it’s free.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It’s never outside.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You are awareness, disguised as a person.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Awareness and ego cannot coexist.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“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 means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The human condition: lost in thought.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. It also strengthens the immune system and the body’s ability to heal itself.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i’m doing? If there isn’t then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“In any relationship, especially marriage, be as free of compulsive thinking as possible. In other words, the more space there is in the relationship – inner space – the more love there is because love arises out of the inner spaciousness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Practice presence – embrace the place where life happens.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can then express itself through you. So through surrender often you find circumstances changing.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If you don’t mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It’s a split that tears you apart inside.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Man made God in his own image…” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn’t mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The past has no power over the present moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Don’t wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Become intensely conscious of the present moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You are not a problem that needs solving.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You are not your mind.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“For the ego to survive, it must make time – past and future – more important than the present moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don’t demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“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 joy beneath the pain.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t take your thoughts too seriously.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Thinking is compulsive: you can’t stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don’t even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The source of all abundance is not outside of you. It’s a part of who you are.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it’s your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating – lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Facing facts is always empowering.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn’t even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn’t know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body’s reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You can be very much aware that when you are stressed, it always is a sign you have lost the present moment. So, you can choose to re-enter the present moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B – for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“To love is to recognize yourself in another.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If not now, when?” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It’s good for the body and it’s good for the soul.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don’t realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it’s measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don’t realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“If the thought of lack -whether it be money, recognition, or love has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Not until you surrender does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy you emanate and that then runs your life is of a much higher vibrational frequency than the mind energy that still runs the world.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Leave life alone. Let it be.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Allow nature to teach you stillness.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time – past and future – the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.” ~ Eckhart Tolle