Eckhart Tolle Quotes

“Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.”

Mind Humans Sadness Conditions Boredom Human Mind Comes And Goes Feeling Sad Stillness Speaks

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“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.”

People Ifs Way Life Inspirational Needs Moments Spiritual Challenges Treats Overcoming Obstacles Insane Present Moment Way To Live Power Of Now Stillness Speaks

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“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.”

Knows Pain Joy Enlightenment Salvation Noise Enlightened Thinker Stillness Know Yourself Power Of Now Power Of Now Book Enlightenment And Love

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.”

Inspirational Important Answers Existence Knowing Importance Simplicity Meaningful Ease Indifference Crucial Not Knowing

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.”

People Ifs Havens Letting Go Surrender Forgiven

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“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.”

Life Inspirational Spiritual Voice Realizing Who I Am Liberation Finding Yourself Relatable Spiritual Awakening Power Of Now Listen To Yourself New Earth Voices In My Head Stillness Speaks

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.”

People Knows Giving Suffering Humanity Security Strange Prison Cells Collectives Dogma Strange Things Prison Cells

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“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.”

Thinking Mind Humans Kind Mean Spiritual Form Human Beings Violence Concepts Prejudice Thinking Mind

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“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.”

Ifs Inspirational Long Has Beens Action Spiritual Mistake Situation Cases Long Time Stuck Unhappy Power Of Now Power Of Now Book

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.”

Ifs Want Three Responsibility Situation Accepting Consequence Unhappy Remove Taking Responsibility Here And Now Power Of Now Wherever You Are Responsibility For Your Life Power Of Now Book

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.”

People Ifs Thinking Motivational Spiritual Powerful Power Positive Positive Thinking Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Little Things Small Things Disturbing Power Of Now

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.”

World Looks States Reality Energy Consciousness This World Acceptance Subtle Passive Vibrations

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.”

Way Believe Shows Jesus I Believe Realizing Oneness Precursor

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“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. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.”

States Body Form Loses Love Is Dependent Within You Deep Within Power Of Now

Book:Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

“People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.”

People Mind Change Anxiety Judgment Negative Guilt Good Things Obsessed Calming Calm Down

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.”

Persons Stills Real Spiritual Powerful Shining Deeper Awakening Within You Spiritual Awakening

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.”

Mind Process Memories Ego Achievement Possession Habitual Thought Process Personal History

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.”

People Thinking Self Problem Sense Of Self

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.”

People World Stills Space Awareness This World Arise

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.”

Moments Disappear Present Moment Fear Of Death Live In The Present

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.”

Thinking Reality Bits Pieces Cutting Fragments Bits And Pieces Conceptual Thinking

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.”

People May Spiritual Suffering Meditation Teaching Technique Contact Spiritual Teaching

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.”

Moments Certain Attention Conscious Arise Present Moment Alertness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.”

Ifs Way Cases Ego Threat Defense Despite Vulnerable Mechanism Insecure Phantoms Defense Mechanisms

Book:Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

“I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.”

World Feels Believe Body Universe Process Walks Flower Creating Don't Believe Agents Cells Grass Blades Ongoing Blades Of Grass

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes people watch me. It's a challenge. But it's usually people who want to say 'your book transformed my life', or something... so then I'm joyful. One moment before, I didn't want them to recognise me, but when they do, I'm glad.”

People Want Book Sometimes Moments Challenges Watches Sitting Glad Backgrounds Enjoyed Transformed Joyful Recognise Cafes Watch Me

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.”

Thinking Mind Use Action Attention Watches Cutting Acknowledge Links Taking Action Preventing

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.”

Believe Real Reality Past Realizing Memories Arise Over You

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?”

Ifs May Moments Problem Situation

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.”

Knows Needs Stills Teaching Rivers Ritual Stillness Vehicle Entering Psalms

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.”

Thinking Moments Answers Levels Conscious Essence Who You Are Definitions Defined Labels Present Moment

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.”

Ifs Mind Use Used Instruments Destructive Power Of Now Superb Power Of Now Book

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.”

Feels Mind Looks Persons Body Might Energy Space Half Talking Doors Tree Sky Minutes Car Breathe Your Body Seconds

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

“When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?”

Thinking World Kind Spiritual Delusion Separateness

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): 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.”

“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.”

World Long Spiritual Humanity Lost Wonder Return Long Time Miracle Labels Awe Possessed Miraculous Long Time Ago Cover Ups New Earth

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“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.”

Life Inspirational Life Is Death Dies Secret Ego Life And Death Life Death Power Of Now Secret Life New Earth Stripping Before I Die Inner Power Power Of Now Book Stripping Away

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“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.”

Ifs Trying States Consciousness Goodness Findings Fundamentals Be Good Allowing Within You States Of Consciousness New Earth

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“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.”

World Humans Moments Spiritual Purpose Existence Awareness This World Ultimate Present Moment Concealed Human Existence New Earth

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Man made God in his own image.”

Men Made Power Of Now New Earth

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“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.”

Thinking Spiritual Causes Situation Awareness Primaries Unhappiness Live In The Moment New Earth

Book:Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth

Source: Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth

“...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.”

Inspirational Persons Inspiration Spiritual Creative Capable Empowerment Mere Enthusiasm

Author:Eckhart 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.”

Life Inspirational Looks Change Realizing Space Positive Negative Surface Something New Present Moment

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): 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.”

Knows Mind Spiritual Awareness Concepts Glimpse

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.”

People Spiritual New Earth

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): 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.”

World Spiritual This World Draws Recognition Dimensions

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): 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.”

Ifs Spiritual Growth Consciousness Balanced Psycho Likelihood Corresponding Dysfunction

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

Giving Spiritual Inspiring Consciousness Evolution Self Improvement Experience Karma Helpful Self Development Power Of Now New Earth Conscious Awareness Bad Karma

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.”

Stillness Benediction

Author:Eckhart Tolle

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