Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.

Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity

The thing that gives you power also traps you.

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

The world can only change from within.

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.

Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

You are this universe experiencing itself, very briefly, as a human.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.

You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are - which is now

Facing facts is always empowering.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.

When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

The flower of #‎ consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows.

For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality

You can be very much aware that when you are stressed, it always is a sign you have lost the present moment. So, you can choose to re-enter the present moment.

Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.

Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.

To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.

Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now

Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.

Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.

I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it.

When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.