Eckhart Tolle Quotes

To love is to recognize yourself in another.

The past has no power over the present moment.

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.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

What 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.

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

Man made God in his own image...

As 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.

Reading 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.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them cats.

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

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

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.

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

Some 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.

Those 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.

Time 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.

Su tarea no es buscar amor sino encontrar una puerta a través de la cual el amor pueda entrar”
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