Eckhart Tolle

“Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.”

“This, too, will pass.”

“Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.”

“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.”

“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.”

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

“Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”

“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.”

“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”

“Become conscious of being conscious.”

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

“The past has no power over the present moment.”

“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.”

“The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.”

“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”

“Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.”

“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”

“The human condition: lost in thought.”

“Being must be felt. It can't be thought.”

“All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.”

“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.”

“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.”

“What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.”

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”

“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?”

“To love is to recognize yourself in another.”

“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”

“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”

“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

“With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.”

“If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.”

“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.”

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

“Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Man made God in his own image...”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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