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Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Total quotes: 36
“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.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: present, Stay In The Now, Consciousness
“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, A New Earth(Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Tagged: Negative, Optimism, Hope, Life
“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, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Tagged: facing problems, Facing Reality, Acceptance, accepting challenges, accepting the present moment, Living Boldly, living and surviving, Life
“Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it.”
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Tagged: Enlightenment, Optimism, Inspirational
“The moment you start watching your thoughts, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Consciousness, Awakening, mindfulness, Thoughts
“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
Tagged: Thoughts, Unhappiness
“Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.”
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Tagged: Stress, present, Stay In The Now, Desire
“Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.”
— Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
Tagged: Suffering
“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.”
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Tagged: Anger, Pain
“...'Die before you die' ― and find that there is no death.”
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Tagged: Death & Life, Death, Life, Living, Experience, secret in life
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. 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 nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Tagged: Negativity, present, Anxiety, tension, Stress, Fear, Future, Stay In The Now, Guilt, Regret, Sadness, Bitterness, Past
“It is through the mistakes that the greatest learning happens on an inner level.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Learning Through Mistakes
“Only one thing is of absolute importance and that is your connectedness with being.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Being, Awakening
“The first important step into the now is to become aware of whatever surrounds you.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Awareness, Self Realization, meditation
“It is only a small step from the word 'being' to the experience of Being.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Being, State Of Being
“Unhappiness is created whenever you are out of alignment with the present moment.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Unhappiness, Present Moments
“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Awareness, Enlightened, Transformation, Thoughts, emotions
“You do not need to always conceptualize, interpret or label everything that comes into your awareness.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Awareness, Labels
“What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Self Realization, Self Deception, Thoughts
“When you listen to the voice, listen to it impartially. This is to say, do not judge.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Voice Within, Listening
“People would occasionally come up to me and say: 'I want what you have. Can you give it to me, or show me how to get it?' And I would say: 'You have it already. You just can't feel it because your mind is making too much noise.' That answer later grew into the book that you are holding in your hands.”
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Tagged: How To Think, Spirituality, Philosophy
“Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let the feeling turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyze. Don't make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you.”
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Tagged: Feelings, emotions, present
“Take responsibility for your state of consciousness in the moment.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Consciousness, Awakening
“There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: How to FIght your Ego
“Being is not only beyond but also deep within.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Being, Journey Within, Discovering Yourself
“To the ego, the present moment hardly exists.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Ego, Ego is the Enemy, Living In The Moment
“Resist nothing.”
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Tagged: Spirituality, How To Think, Philosophy, Psychology
“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
Tagged: Time, live in the moment, present
“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
Tagged: Mistakes, actions, Learning, Growing
“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world, we call a butterfly.”
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Tagged: beauty, Change, Growth
“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, A New Earth
“Every person carries the seed of enlightenment within.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Enlightenment, Enlightened
“You are the Universe becoming conscious of itself.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: Awakening, Consciousness, Transformation, Being
“To love is to recognize yourself in another.”
— Eckhart Tolle
Tagged: real love, Love
“See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Tagged: complaints, Victim, Change
“[After] two ducks get into a fight, which never lasts long, they will separate and float off in opposite directions. Then each duck will flap its wings vigorously a few times, thus releasing the surplus energy that built up during the fight. After they flap their wings, they float on peacefully, as if nothing had ever happened.

If the duck had a human mind, it would keep the fight alive by thinking, by story-making. This would probably be the duck’s story: ‘…He thinks he owns this pond. He has no consideration for my private space…’ As far as the body is concerned, the fight is still continuing, and the energy it generates in response to all those thoughts is emotion…”
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)
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