Eckhart Tolle Quotes 251 Quotes for Inner Stillness and Deep Connection with the Present Moment

“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

“The past has no power over the present moment.”

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

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

“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

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

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

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

“I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness.”

Variant: The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Eckhart Tolle Quotes about life

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

Stillness Speaks (2003)

“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.”

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”

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

Variant: Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

“A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.”

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

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“Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.”

“Many things in your life matter but only one thing matters absolutely. It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matters whether you are rich or poor. It certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking. But they don't matter absolutely. There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who your are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”

Source: The Power of Now

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

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 5

Eckhart Tolle Quotes

“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.”

“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”

“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.”

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

“When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.”

“The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality”

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

“Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”

“Let me say it again:
the present moment is all you ever have.”

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

“The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.”

Variant: Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Ask yourself what “problem” you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?”

The Power of Now (1997)

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

The Power of Now (1997)

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

Source: A New Earth (2005)

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

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

“This, too, will pass.”

“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.”

“It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.”

Source: A New Earth

“The human condition: lost in thought.”

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

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

A New Earth (2005)

“The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.”

“Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought”

“The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it. Another factor has come in, something that is not of the mind: the witnessing presence.”

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

“Teachings that pointed the way beyond the dysfunction of the human mind, the way out of the collective insanity, were distorted and became themselves part of the insanity.
And so religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about an ending of violence and hatred through a realization of the fundamental oneness of all life, they brought more violence and hatred, more divisions between people as well as between different religions and even within the same religion.”

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

“You say, “I want to know myself.” You are the I. You are the knowing. You are the consciousness through which everything is known and that cannot know itself. It is itself. There is nothing to know beyond that. And yet all knowing arises out of it. The “I” cannot make itself into an object of knowledge, of consciousness.
So you cannot become an object to yourself. That is the very reason the illusion of egoic identity arose because mentally you made yourself into an object. “That's me,” you say, and then you begin to have a relationship with yourself and tell others and yourself your story.”

A New Earth (2005)

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

Stillness Speaks (2003)

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

A New Earth (2005)

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

Source: A New Earth

“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”

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

“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”

“Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose”

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

“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”

“Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”

A New Earth (2005)

“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”

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

The Power of Now (1997)

“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.”

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

“Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.”

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

“The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. … Both are illusions.”

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

“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.”

The Power of Now (1997)
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”

A New Earth (2005)
Source: 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”

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

“All problems are illusions of the mind.”

Variant: Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it. Unhappiness covers up your natural state of wellbeing and inner peace, the source of true happiness.
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

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

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

A New Earth (2005)
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.”

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