ECKHART TOLLE QUOTES

'On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.'

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

“Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.”

When you complain you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Nonresistance, non-judgment, and non-attachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

"When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence."

Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.

Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

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

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

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

Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

'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.'

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

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

'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.'

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of the ego.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”

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.

Every thought pretends that it matters so much. It wants to draw your attention in completely. Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

“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.”

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.”

Your life has an inner purpose and an outer purpose. Inner purpose concerns Being and is primary. Outer purpose concerns doing and is secondary.

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

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

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?"

You don't have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.

When listening to another person, don't just listen with your mind, listen with your whole body. Feel the energy field of your inner body as you listen.That takes attention away from thinking and creates a still space that enables you to truly listen without the mind interfering. You are giving the other person space - space to be. It is the most precious gift you can give.

I emanate love and joy,complete presence and openness, toward all beings.

"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."

“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.”

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.

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

The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form ofunconscious resistance to what is.

The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.

'The past has no power over the present moment.'

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

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

“To love is to recognize yourself in another.”

"Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you."

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

“This Too Shall Pass”

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

“The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.”

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

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.

"You get there by realizing you are already there."

"The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are."

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

'Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.'

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

Spiritual seekers look for self-realization or enlightenment in the future. To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are.

'In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.'

There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.

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.

You will be free to let go of your unhappiness the moment you recognize it as unintelligent. Negativity is not intelligent. It is always of the ego.

You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.

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

Life is always and only here and now. To live spiritually is to live in the state of openness to what is.

'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.'

“Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.”

The world can only change from within.

'Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose'

Do not resist the pain. Allow it to be there. Surrender to the grief, despair, fear, loneliness, or whatever form the suffering takes. Witness it without labeling it mentally. Embrace it. Then see how the miracle of surrender transmutes deep suffering into deep peace. This is your crucifixion. Let it become your resurrection and ascension.

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