Eckhart Tolle Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.
Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.
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.
You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.
Whenever death occurs, whenever a life form dissolves, God, the formless and unmanifested, shines through the opening left by the dissolving form.
If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.
All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.
I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.
Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness
A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.
What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?
Most people find it difficult to believe that a state of consciousness totally free of all negativity is possible.
[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.
The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant.
Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force.
The unconscious compulsion to enhance one's identity through association with an object is built into the very structure of the egoic mind.
But as long as negativity is there, use it. Use it as a kind of signal that reminds you to be more present.
Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.
People with heavy pain-bodies usually have a better chance to awaken spiritually than those with a relatively light one.
God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.
If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.
Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.
Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.
God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die"
and find that there is no death.
and find that there is no death.
Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.
Instead of quoting the Buddha, be the Buddha, be "the awakened one," which is what the word buddha means.
The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.
The greatest obstacle to experiencing the reality of your connectedness is identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.
What the world doesn't tell you - because it doesn't know - is that you cannot become successful. You can only be successful.
The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.
There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.
"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.
By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought
The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.