Eckhart Tolle

"Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective."

- Eckhart Tolle

"“Negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.”"

- Eckhart Tolle

"Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there,’ or being in the present but wanting to be in the future."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand, and becoming comfortable with not knowing."

- Eckhart Tolle

"To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually."

- Eckhart Tolle

"I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there.""

- Eckhart Tolle

"Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.’"

- Eckhart Tolle

"Awareness is the greatest agent for change."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness."

- Eckhart Tolle

"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

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

- Eckhart Tolle

"Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being."

- Eckhart Tolle

"When you smile at a stranger, there is already a minute outflow of energy. You become a giver."

- Eckhart Tolle

"If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it."

- 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."

- Eckhart Tolle

"You are not your thoughts. You are not your emotions. You are the observer of your thoughts and emotions."

- Eckhart Tolle

"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."

- Eckhart Tolle

"A shy person who is afraid of the attention of others is not free of ego, but has an ambivalent ego that both wants and fears attention from others. The fear is that the attention may take the form of disapproval or criticism, that is to say, something that diminishes the sense of self rather than enhances it. So the shy person's fear of attention is greater than his or her need of attention. Shyness often goes with a self concept that is predominantly negative, the belief of being inadequate. Any conceptual sense of self – seeing myself as this or that is ego, whether predominantly positive (I am the greatest) or negative (I am no good). Behind every positive self concept is the hidden fear of not being good enough. Behind every negative self concept its the hidden desire of being the greatest or better than others. Behind the confident ego's feeling of and continuing need for superiority is the unconscious fear of inferiority. Conversely, the shy, inadequate ego that feels inferior has a strong hidden desire for superiority. Many people fluctuate between feelings of inferiority and superiority, depending on situations or the people they come into contact with. All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you. Why does the ego play roles? Because of one unexamined assumption, one fundamental error, one unconscious thought. That thought is: I am not enough. Other unconscious thoughts follow: I need to play a role in order to get what I need to be fully myself; I need to get more so that I can be more. But you cannot be more than you are because underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being. In form, you are and will always be inferior to some, superior to others. In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same."

- Eckhart Tolle

"You are not the anger, you are the awareness behind the anger. Realize this and the anger will no longer control you."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The only way to be happy is to live in the present moment, and to accept it as it is."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than hanging on."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Any action is often better than no action… 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

"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."

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

- Eckhart Tolle

"Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."

- Eckhart Tolle

"You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Do not resist your pain. Surrender to the grief, despair, fear, loneliness or what form the suffering takes. Witness it without labelling it mentally. Allow it to be there. Embrace it. Then see how the miracle of surrender transmutes deep suffering into deep peace."

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

- Eckhart Tolle

"All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind."

- Eckhart Tolle

"When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life."

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Eckhart Tolle

"All the things that truly matter—beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace—arise from beyond the mind."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Inner peace is not found by staying on the surface of life but by diving deep within."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Sometimes letting go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on."

- 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."

- 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."

- Eckhart Tolle

"I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation of all abundance."

- Eckhart Tolle

"It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is the true prosperity."

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Eckhart Tolle

"Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be."

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

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""You cannot receive what you don’t give. Outflow determines inflow.""

- Eckhart Tolle

"You cannot receive what you don’t give. Outflow determines inflow."

- Eckhart Tolle

"There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself."

- Eckhart Tolle

"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

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Wherever you are, be totally there"

- Eckhart Tolle

"Inhale the future. Exhale the past."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Accept–then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. This will miraculously transform your whole life."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Angels remind us to be present in the moment, to fully embrace the beauty and joy that surrounds us."

- Eckhart Tolle

"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

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life"

- Eckhart Tolle

"The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now. You are in the here and now, while your mind is in the future. This creates an anxiety gap. And if you are identified with your mind and have lost touch with the power and simplicity of the Now, that anxiety gap will be your constant companion. You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future."

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Eckhart Tolle

"In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness."

- 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

"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

"Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in being."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Disappointment is a reminder that life doesn’t always go as planned. Embrace the uncertainty, for it is what makes the journey worthwhile."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Breathe in deeply, find ultimate calmness."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."

- Eckhart Tolle

"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."

- Eckhart Tolle

"You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while."

- Eckhart Tolle

"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."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Don’t look for peace. Don’t look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there and will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender."

- Eckhart Tolle