POWER OF NOW QUOTES FROM EKHART TOLLE
"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
— Eckhart Tolle
"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)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"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
— Eckhart Tolle
"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)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"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)
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)
"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)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"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)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"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)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"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
— Eckhart Tolle
"Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"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)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"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
— Eckhart Tolle
"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."
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)
"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
— Eckhart Tolle
"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
— Eckhart Tolle
"All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"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)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"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)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"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)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"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
— Eckhart Tolle
"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)
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)
"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)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"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
— Eckhart Tolle
"Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
"
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"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)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"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)
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)
"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
— Eckhart Tolle
"...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)
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)
"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)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"Become conscious of being conscious."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle quotes (showing 51-100 of 128)
"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."
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)
"Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?"
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?"
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing."
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)
"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."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"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."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life"
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"With stillness comes the benediction of Peace."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"You have so much to learn from your enemies."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"Whenever you
become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight
of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is
primary, all else secondary."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight
of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is
primary, all else secondary."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"One thing we do know: 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 this moment."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"All problems are illusions of the mind."
— Eckhart Tolle (Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now)
— Eckhart Tolle (Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now)
"Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"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."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?"
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.
"
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!"
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?"
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This is to say, their inner purpose would emerge only as their outer purpose collapsed and the shell of the ego would begin to crack open. The emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: being? What do you do with it?"
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"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."
— Eckhart Tolle (Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now)
— Eckhart Tolle (Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now)
"Nothing has ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?"
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle quotes (showing 101-128 of 128)
"The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken."
— Eckhart Tolle (Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now)
— Eckhart Tolle (Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now)
"The mind is a superb instrument 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. All the things that truly matter — beaut...y, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind..."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?"
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier:
Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So while your inner
purpose is to negate time, your outer purpose necessarily involves future and
so could not exist without time. But it is always secondary. Whenever you
become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight
of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is
primary, all else secondary."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So while your inner
purpose is to negate time, your outer purpose necessarily involves future and
so could not exist without time. But it is always secondary. Whenever you
become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight
of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is
primary, all else secondary."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"Each person's life – each lifeform,
in fact – represents a world, a
unique way in which the universe experiences itself."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
in fact – represents a world, a
unique way in which the universe experiences itself."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet
highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time."
— Eckhart Tolle
highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time."
— Eckhart Tolle
"A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself."
— Eckhart Tolle (Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now)
— Eckhart Tolle (Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now)
"Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness"
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being.
To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence."
— Eckhart Tolle
To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence."
— Eckhart Tolle
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living."
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)
"The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always "Is that so?" shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens. The story of the man whose comment was invariably a laconic "Maybe" illustrates the wisdom of nonjudgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining, fear, aggression, or anger. This is important because whenever you complain about what somebody else does you're already beginning to fall into that trap of unconsciousness."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"True Power is within, and it is available now."
— Eckhart Tolle (Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now)
— Eckhart Tolle (Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now)
"Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an evolutionary stage that we are now growing out of?
Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also apply to yourself."
— Eckhart Tolle (Stillness Speaks)
Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also apply to yourself."
— Eckhart Tolle (Stillness Speaks)
"To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do."
— Eckhart Tolle
— Eckhart Tolle
"whatever you fight, you strengthyen. What you resist, persists. "A New Earth":War is a mind set"
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"why Human should not look at the past?"
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
"When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)
