Eckhart Tolle Quotes

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

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.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

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.

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.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling place inside you.

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.

Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.

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.

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

If I find here and Now unacceptable, I have three choices: 1-Totally accept it. 2- Change it. 3-Remove myself from the situation. That is taking responsibility for my life.

Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

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.

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.

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

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.

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.

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you.

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

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

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

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.

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

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.

The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

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.

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

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.

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.