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“To bring your attention to a stone, a tree, or an animal does not mean to think about it, but simply to perceive it, to hold it in your awareness.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003)

“How quick we are to form an opinion of a person, to come to a conclusion about them. It is satisfying to the egoic mind to label another human being, to give them a conceptual identity, to pronounce righteous judgment upon them.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Chapter 8 Relationships

“How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 8

“The ego doesn’t like to hear this, because if it cannot be reactive and righteous anymore, it will lose strength.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 8

“In the Bible, it says that God created the world and saw that it was good. That is what you see when you look from stillness without thought.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 1

“When you think or speak about yourself, when you say, “I,” what you usually refer to is “me and my story.” This is the “I” of your likes and dislikes, fears and desires, the “I” that is never satisfied for long. It is a mind-made sense of who you are, conditioned by the past and seeking to find its fulfillment in the future.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003)

“When you walk though a forest that has not been tamed and interfered with by man, you will see not only abundant life around you, but you will also encounter fallen trees and decaying trunks, rotting leaves and decomposing matter at every step.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 9

“Wherever you look, you will find death as well as life. Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life, but are full of life themselves.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 9

“Microorganisms are at work. Molecules are rearranging themselves. So death isn’t to be found anywhere. There is only the metamorphosis of life forms. What can you learn from this?”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 9

“The interconnectedness of all things: Buddhists have always known it and physicists now confirm it. Nothing that happens is an isolated event, it only appears to be. The more we judge and label it, the more we isolate it.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Chapter 10 Suffering and the End of Suffering

“The wholeness of life becomes fragmented through our thinking. Yet the totality of life has brought this event about. It is part of the web of interconnectedness that is the cosmos. This means whatever is could not be otherwise.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 10

“In most cases, we cannot begin to understand what role a seemingly senseless event may have within the totality of the cosmos but recognizing its inevitability within the vastness of the whole can be the beginning of an inner acceptance of what is and thus a realignment with the wholeness of life.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 10

“The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.”

Eckhart Tolle book The Power of Now

Source: The Power of Now (1997), p. 76

“Because we live in such a mind-dominated culture, most modern art, architecture, music, and literature are devoid of beauty, of inner essence, with very few exceptions.”

Eckhart Tolle book The Power of Now

Source: The Power of Now (1997)

“There is an aliveness in you that you can feel with your Being, not just in the head. Every cell is alive in that presence in which you don't need to think. Yet, in that state, if thought is required for some practical purpose, it is there. The mind can still operate, and it operated beautifully when the greater intelligence that you are uses it and expresses itself through it.”

Eckhart Tolle

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003)

“I have little use for the past and rarely think about it; however, I would briefly like to tell you how I came to be a spiritual teacher and how this book came into existence. Until my thirtieth year, I lived in a state of almost continuous anxiety interspersed with periods of suicidal depression. It feels now as if I am talking about some past lifetime or somebody else's life.”

Eckhart Tolle book The Power of Now

Source: The Power of Now (1997) - Introduction

“What was the point in continuing to live with this burden of misery? Why carry on with this continuous struggle? I could feel that a deep longing for annihilation, for nonexistence, was now becoming much stronger than the instinctive desire to continue to live. “I cannot live with myself any longer.” This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. “Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’ that ‘I’ cannot live with.” “Maybe,” I thought, “only one of them is real.””

Eckhart Tolle book The Power of Now

Source: The Power of Now (1997) Introduction