Eckhart Tolle quotes

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

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
- Eckhart Tolle

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

I’m grateful always for this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
- 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 there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
- 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

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

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.
- Eckhart Tolle

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
- Eckhart Tolle

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
- Eckhart Tolle

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
- 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

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
- Eckhart Tolle

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
- 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

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

People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
- Eckhart Tolle

Always say ‘yes’ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‘yes’ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
- Eckhart Tolle

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.
- Eckhart Tolle

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
- Eckhart Tolle

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
- Eckhart Tolle

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.
- Eckhart Tolle