Eckhart Tolle Quotes

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.

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

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.

Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.

Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.

You have so much to learn from your enemies.

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe.

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

The source of all abundance is not outside of you. It's a part of who you are.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.

Where ever you are, be there totally.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

Every human being in the human form has limitations.

Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them again, where we're both in no-thought. There's a deep connection.

That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space...it is also within you.

You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.

Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

◦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature

And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche

Once bliss becomes normal it's no longer bliss, it's just peace.

Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me

Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

The only thing you ever have is now.

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.