quotes by Eckhart Tolle

"The past has no power over the present moment."
— Eckhart Tolle

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"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

"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

"To love is to recognize yourself in another."
— Eckhart Tolle

"You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life."
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)

"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

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

"When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"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)

"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."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"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."
— Eckhart Tolle

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

"Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness."
— Eckhart Tolle

"Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction."
— Eckhart Tolle

"Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be."
— Eckhart Tolle

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

"What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself."
— Eckhart Tolle

"Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of."
— Eckhart Tolle

"Man made God in his own image..."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

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

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

"This, too, will pass."
— Eckhart Tolle

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

"Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists."
— Eckhart Tolle

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

"Being must be felt. It can't be thought."
— Eckhart Tolle

"With stillness comes the benediction of Peace."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without."
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)

"I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through."
— Eckhart Tolle

"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."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"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."
— Eckhart Tolle

"Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not."
— Eckhart Tolle

"Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?"
— Eckhart Tolle

"When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world."
— Eckhart Tolle

"Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness"
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"Become conscious of being conscious."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions."
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)

"Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind."
— Eckhart Tolle

"Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind."
— Eckhart Tolle

"The human condition: lost in thought."
— Eckhart Tolle

"Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?"
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

"Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)