Eckhart Tolle Quotes

It's interesting that stepping out of thought was actually triggered by a thought.

Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace.

It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.

The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.

Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.

The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

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.

Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence

I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace.

To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.

Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.

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.

Most humans live in the mindset that this moment is only important because it's getting them to the next one.

Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.

Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

The future never comes. Life is always now.

Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.

If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.

The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred.

Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.

We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking.

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.

You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.

Forgive yourself for not being at peace.

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature.

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.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

This, too, will pass.

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.

I enjoy going to Starbucks, having a cup of coffee, sitting in my car, driving from here to there, sitting at home looking at the trees, going for a walk with a dog. It's all very enjoyable.

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.

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.

...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

When you always want the next thing, every human being becomes a means to an end.

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.

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth

Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home—because you are home.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.