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“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

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

“Man made God in his own image…”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

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

“To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

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

“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.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

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

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“Whenever you
become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight
of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is
primary, all else secondary.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

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

“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 (1948) German writer

“What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.”

Eckhart Tolle book A New Earth

A New Earth (2005)

“If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

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

“Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

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

“If not now, when?”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

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

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

Eckhart Tolle book A New Earth

A New Earth (2005)

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

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

“When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

A New Earth (2005)
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.”

Eckhart Tolle book A New Earth

A New Earth (2005)
Variant: All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

A New Earth (2005)
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“All problems are illusions of the mind.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

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