Eckhart Tolle Quotes

A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it.

Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.

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 wonderous dream arises.

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.

When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.

Being is central, and Being is now. The fulfillment of your life is not going to happen through anything. The outer activities in your life are secondary. What is Primary is Being.

God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.

Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.

You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present.

You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.

Feel the Aliveness within your Body. That anchors You in the Now.

Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.

Become intensely conscious of the present moment.

Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.

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

What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.

I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore".

In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.

Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep on asserting that it's okay to be sick?

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.

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

True change happens within not without

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen of your thinking. You notice it as you become more awake.

The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

Even in a moment of stress, you can say, "OK, can I enjoy the doing itself? Can I enjoy the flow of energy of this moment?" And of course you can!

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

Oprah [Winfrey] and I share a similar consciousness of spirit that is manifested in what some may call God or simply Spirit but others call it the Godhead manifestation of karmic virtue.

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake.

Because we all carry the Truth within us as our essence, we recognize it immediately.

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

Surrendering only refers to this moment, whatever "is" at this moment - to accept unconditionally and fully whatever arises at this moment.

"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.

Even running to catch a train or a taxi, you can enjoy the high energy of the moment.

The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the animals assisting us; we are also assisting the animals.

The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence of healing.

In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.