Eckhart Tolle: Trending quotes (page 6)

“You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.”

“On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.”

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

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

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

“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?”

“Presence is a state of inner spaciousness.”

“Your presence, your consciousness”

“You are not your mind”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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