96 result(s) for Eckhart Tolle Quotes.
"Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be."
"Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life."
"Die to the past every moment. You don’t need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present."
"You are the Universe expressing itself as human for a little while."
"The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is."
"Don’t look for peace. Don’t look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender."
"Accept—then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it."
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"To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment."
"Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness."
"Life unfolds between the polarities of order and chaos. It is important at this time to recognize both."
"Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life."
"Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it."
"Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought."
"What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that."
"As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease."
"Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now."
"If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within, secondary reality without."
"The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions."
"Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment."
"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world."
"All the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind."
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"Always say ‘yes’ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‘yes’ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you."
"Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance."
"You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life."
"The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it."
"The more you live in complete acceptance of what is, the more you are at ease with what is."
"Life will give you whatever experience is the most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness."
"Instead of asking ‘what do I want from life?’, a more powerful question is, ‘what does life want from me?’"
"Being must be felt. It can’t be thought."
"You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while."
"Awareness is the greatest agent for change."
"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."
"Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you."
"To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for your inner state at any given moment."
"To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually."
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"Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live."
"Be aware of your breathing. It takes attention away from thinking and gives it to your body."
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living."
"You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!"
"Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on."
"Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary."
"Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it."
"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life."
"Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you."
"You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather."
"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
"Anything that you resent and strongly react to in others is also in you."
"The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace."
"If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place."
"What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am."
"The primary purpose of your life is to bring consciousness into this world."
"The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated."
"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself."
"Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that."
"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life."
"The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present."
"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness."
"Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life."
"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."
"To love is to recognize yourself in another."
"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."
"The past has no power over the present moment."
"Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be."
"You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather."
"Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge."
"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it."
"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."
"Wherever you are, be there totally."
"The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Here and now is who you truly are."
"To listen to your thoughts is to be aware of what is not true and is perpetuating the illusion of truth."
"Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence."
"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness."
"Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life."
"The more you are in the present moment, the more free you become."
"Life is now. The present moment is all you have."
"Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality."
"Where there is awareness, there is no suffering."
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
"The ego finds its reality in seeking, possessing, and controlling."
"To allow yourself to be in the present moment is to allow yourself to be free."
"You are not your mind."
"Presence is the only way to experience the truth of being."
"All negativity is caused by an accumulation of lack of awareness."
"Don't let the mind take you on a journey into the past or the future. Stay here."
"Awareness is the gateway to freedom."
"Freedom is being able to be in the present moment without the mind interfering."
"Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation."
"The ego is a form of identification with the mind."
"Acceptance of what is, the right to be, is the simplest form of presence."
"When you are fully present, you are no longer lost in the past or the future."
"The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes a dangerous master."
"Don't try to fight the thoughts; just observe them."
"There is a stillness that is not the absence of sound, but the presence of peace."
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
"Most people are not living; they are merely surviving in a state of mental noise."
"The key to happiness is to live in the Now."
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