Eckhart Tolle Quotes
Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.
When the ego dominates in organizations, even spiritual organizations, there is usually a big drama or upheaval of some kind, and self-destruction begins.
As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives.
Be aware of your breathing as often as you are able, whenever you remember. Do that for one year, and it will be powerfully transformative. And it's free.
A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.
Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness.
The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.
If you are not in alignment with the moment, life is a struggle. Really, all you have to do is take responsibility for your inner alignment with now.
We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other.
A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.
We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.
Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.
My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.
The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.
Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.
Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.
True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.
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.
Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.
Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind
We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.
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.
Germany is a nation that created an enormous amount of suffering on the planet. The German people also themselves have suffered, because it always goes together.
Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.
Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.
The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.
All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself
Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.