Eckhart Tolle Quotes
Eckhart Tolle Quotes
To love is to recognize yourself in another.
1426The past has no power over the present moment.
2790The 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.
5000Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
2505Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.
2243What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.
2845every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.
1397Man made God in his own image...
3257As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.
3352Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.
1369Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
4433I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them cats.
1831Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
2065The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
1490Death 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.
1419Die before you die and find that there is no death.
4576Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.
3602Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world.
4016Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time - past and future - the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
2880Su tarea no es buscar amor sino encontrar una puerta a través de la cual el amor pueda entrar”
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3272Solamente lo eterno de nosotros puede reconocer la temporalidad de lo temporal
4695La llegada del desorden a la vida de una persona con el consiguiente colapso del significado definido por la mente, puede constituir la puerta a un orden superior.
1311You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness has identified with. That's the peace of God. The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.
4343The mind-identified state is severely dysfunctional.
4092How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness.
2412The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.
4656True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.
3048Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
2625Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.
2762You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
4321Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life.
3437I don't know" is not confusion. Confusion is "I don't know, but I should know" or "I don't know, but I need to know." When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
1317Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.
Let it teach you Being.
Let it teach you integrity - which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.
Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.
4621Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
2156You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present...
3589Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
3537Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment.
2724When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.
3137There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges-the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.
3523All problems are illusions of the mind.
1570Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.
3001Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the
waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life - it is very fleeting
Do not identify with your thoughts - continued indentification with the stream of thinking leads to a very serious dysfunction in ones sense of identity...
3397The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.
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