Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.

Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that.

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through.

Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.

When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.

If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.

Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.

When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.

Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.

Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form.

Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.

Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Die before you die and find that there is no death.