Eckhart Tolle Quotes
You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. 'You drink alcohol?!' Well, if my state of consciousness is so fragile that a glass of wine would upset it, then it can't be worth very much.
You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.
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.
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.
Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It's good for the body and it's good for the soul.
To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are.
The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.
The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.
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.
Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.
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.
Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.
The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways.
To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.
Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.
Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves.
A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.
Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.
There's something in human beings, not all human beings, that is ready for the change in consciousness. It needs to happen now if humanity is not to destroy itself and the planet.
Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.
And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."
Now if a teacher gives you a practice, he or she would perhaps point out when you don't need it anymore or you realize yourself when you don't need it anymore.
Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice.
The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.
If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.
I believe from what I can see there is a good chance the shift will happen in humanity before it is too late.
Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm.
The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.
Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.
Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.
Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.
So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.
What I know for sure is that I am a temporary expression in physical form of the one consciousness that expresses itself throughout the universe. I am not separate from that.
When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no foundation - that is the foundation. The formless. The essence.
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.