Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world.
Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.
Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment.
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness. It is that awareness that says "I AM
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's direct reflection in the physical realm.
The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...
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.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
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.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
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.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth.
Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.
Mind isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.
How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness.
True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.
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.
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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.
