Eckhart Tolle quotes (showing 1-50 of 129)

"The past has no power over the present moment." Eckhart Tolle tags: education , inspirational , life , philosophy , truth , wisdom 321 people liked it like "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." Eckhart Tolle tags: change 192 people liked it like "Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance." Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) tags: gratitude 162 people liked it like "To love is to recognize yourself in another." Eckhart Tolle tags: love 154 people liked it like "Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment." Eckhart Tolle tags: experience 133 people liked it like "The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it." Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) 130 people liked it like "Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on." Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) 121 people liked it like "Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life." Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment) tags: realization 120 people liked it like

"You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are." Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) 119 people liked it like "Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are." Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) 117 people liked it like "Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be." Eckhart Tolle tags: life 111 people liked it like "Life is the dancer and you are the dance." Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) tags: dance 99 people liked it like "Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it." Eckhart Tolle 93 people liked it like "You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level." Eckhart Tolle tags: peace 86 people liked it like "This, too, will pass." Eckhart Tolle 81 people liked it like "Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists." Eckhart Tolle 81 people liked it like "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." Eckhart Tolle tags: death 77 people liked it

like "Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness." Eckhart Tolle tags: spiritual 76 people liked it like "Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you." Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) 74 people liked it like "A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever." Eckhart Tolle 70 people liked it like "The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is." Eckhart Tolle 69 people liked it like "All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness." Eckhart Tolle tags: artists 68 people liked it like "Time isnt 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 timepast and futurethe more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is." Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment) tags: being-present , time 66 people liked it like "Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it." Eckhart Tolle 65 people liked it like "All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind." Eckhart Tolle 60 people liked it

like "You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness." Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) 60 people liked it like "Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose" Eckhart Tolle 58 people liked it like "When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought." Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) 57 people liked it like "Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not." Eckhart Tolle tags: wisdom 57 people liked it like "Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within." Eckhart Tolle 54 people liked it like "Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living." Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) 52 people liked it like "Being must be felt. It can't be thought." Eckhart Tolle 51 people liked it like "Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness." Eckhart Tolle tags: experience 51 people liked it like "Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the

same evils, the same dysfunction." Eckhart Tolle 48 people liked it like "What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself." Eckhart Tolle 48 people liked it like "Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the "love" of ego. However, the intensity with which true love is felt can vary. There may be one person who reflects your love back to you more clearly and more intensely than others, and if that person feels the same toward you, it can be said that you are in a love relationship with him or her. The bond that connects you with that person is the same bond that connects you with the person sitting next to you on a bus, or with a bird, a tree, a flower. Only the degree of intensity with which it is felt differs." Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment) 46 people liked it like "Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment." Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) 46 people liked it like "Always say yes to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say yes to life and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you." Eckhart Tolle tags: surrender 43 people liked it like "Awareness is the greatest agent for change. " Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) 40 people liked it like "If not now, when?" Eckhart Tolle 39 people liked it like "The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life." Eckhart Tolle 39 people liked it like

"...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions." Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment) tags: enlightenment , past-and-future 38 people liked it like "Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness" Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) 37 people liked it like "If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without." Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment) 36 people liked it like "To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them - while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease." Eckhart Tolle 36 people liked it like "Man made God in his own image..." Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) tags: inspirational 36 people liked it like "Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world." Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) 34 people liked it like "Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind." Eckhart Tolle 33 people liked it like "Become conscious of being conscious." Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose) 32 people liked it like

"...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of." Eckhart Tolle