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“To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.”

The Power of Now (1997)

“Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole life like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

ABC News Interview

“Whenever you meet anyone, no matter how briefly, do you acknowledge their being by giving them your full attention, or are you reducing them to a means to an end, a mere function or role. What is the quality of your relationship with the cashier at the supermarket, the parking attendant, the repair man, the customer?”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Stillness Speaks (2003)

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

Eckhart Tolle book A New Earth

Source: A New Earth (2005)

“Right now we are being given the experience we need to raise our consciousness.”

Eckhart Tolle book A New Earth

A New Earth (2005)

““I am bored.” Who knows this?
“I am angry, sad, afraid.” Who knows this?
You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Stillness Speaks (2003)

“When you look at a tree, you are aware of the tree. When you have a thought or feeling, you are aware of that thought or feeling. When you have a pleasurable or painful experience, you are aware of that experience. These seem to be true and obvious statements. Yet if you look at them very closely, you will find that in a subtle way their very structure contains a fundamental illusion, an illusion which is unavoidable when you use language. Thought and language create an apparent duality and a separate person where there is none.
The truth is you are not somebody who is aware of the tree, the thought, feeling or experience. You are the awareness or consciousness in and by which those things appear. As you go about your life, can you be aware of yourself as the awareness in which the entire content of your life unfolds?”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Stillness Speaks (2003)

“Presence is a state of inner spaciousness.”

Eckhart Tolle book A New Earth

A New Earth (2005)

“Your presence, your consciousness”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

“You are not your mind”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“whatever you fight, you strengthyen. What you resist, persists. "A New Earth":War is a mind set”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Variant: Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

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

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Variant: All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Source: Stillness Speaks

“When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“You cannot love your partner one moment and attack him or her the next.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be…”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“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.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“… there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose