Eckhart Tolle Quotes
Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.
So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.
The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.
Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness
You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.
Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.
That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.
Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.
The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.
Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.
The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.
The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.
On the new Earth, as the awakened consciousness comes in, I would say the ego would develop in children and quickly become outgrown when they reach adulthood.
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.
"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.
As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.
It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.
You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.
Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.
Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.
When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.
As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.
Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.
It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what's important and what makes you happy.
A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.
...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.
Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.
The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen.
The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.
A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?
The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had.
Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness
A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see.