Eckhart Tolle Quotes
Eckhart Tolle Quotes
Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.
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.
Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there’.
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.
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.
Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without.
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
If your mind carries a heavy burden of the past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through a lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.
All things in nature are not only one with themselves but also one with the totality. They haven’t removed themselves from the fabric of the whole by claiming a separate existence: “me” and the rest of the universe.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.
Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature – the rustling of leaves in the wind, raindrops falling, the humming of an insect, the first birdsong at dawn. Give yourself completely to the act of
The past has no power over the present moment.
Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time – surrendered to life.
listening. Beyond the sounds, there is something greater: a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.
When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.
Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
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.
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In the enlightened state, you still use your thinking mind when needed, but in a much more focused and effective way than before.
Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.
Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal, and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless.
Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.
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.
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.
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
The moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.
When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.
Non-resistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.
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.
Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
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.
If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too
Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.
True communication is the communion-the realization of oneness, which is love.
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Eckhart Tolle Quotes About Writing
This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified with their thought process, they don’t get it. They write reviews or articles and they miss the whole point. They can’t see the essence. It’s not their fault; it’s not them personally. It’s the human condition and its mind-identified state. And intelligence in itself doesn’t help. You can have two or three Ph. D.’s; it doesn’t get you any closer to spiritual realization. In fact, you might be more distant.
People had been writing to me and saying, “Can you write something for children?” I felt I couldn’t quite do it myself because I never had children.
If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and in two minutes he gets eaten by another fish – that’s tragic. But it’s only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and a separate entity out of it.
Eckhart Tolle Quotes a New Earth
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.
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Eckhart Tolle Quote on Cats
Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootlessness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.
Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness.
I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.
Eckhart Tolle Quotes about Awareness
Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
Eckhart Tolle Quotes about Animals
And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.
I call animals “guardians of Being,” especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it’s through their contact with animals they get in touch with that level of being.
Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.
Eckhart Tolle Quotes on Life
Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now
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.
Short Eckhart Tolle Quotes about Words
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much
Eckhart Tolle Quotes about Nature
The contemplation of nature can free you of that “me,” the great troublemaker.
The air that you breathe is nature, as is the breathing process itself.
Bring your attention to your breathing and realize that you are not doing it. It is the breath of nature. If you had to remember to breathe, you would soon die, and if you tried to stop breathing, nature would prevail.
Eckhart Tolle Quotes about age
There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening. So a great opportunity comes whenever we face death.
Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, 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?
Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.
Short Eckhart Tolle Quotes on Your Self
Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do – it’s always now. It’s all there is. And if you continuously miss the now – resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments – the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be yourself.
Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.
You are not ‘in the now;’ you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That’s the equation.
Eckhart Tolle Quotes on Presence
When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.
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 no forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.
Eckhart Tolle Quotes on Past
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
Eckhart Tolle Quotes Power of Now
I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
Eckhart Tolle Quotes on Present Moment
Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment – the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.
Short Eckhart Tolle Quotes Universe
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.
That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space…it is also within you.
You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.
Eckhart Tolle Quotes about Now
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.
Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
Short Eckhart Tolle Quotes on Peace
Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One with Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains.
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
Eckhart Tolle Quotes on Acceptance
Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.
If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.
Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.
Eckhart Tolle Quotes on Time
Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.
Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.
Short Eckhart Tolle Quote on Flowers
We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.
The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human consciousness… seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.
