Eckhart Tolle Quotes
The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.
Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.
Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.
Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.
Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.
The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.
Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.
All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.
Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.
If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.
Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.
Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.
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.
Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity.
Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.
If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.
Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.
When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.