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

Eckhart Tolle

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

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

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

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

Eckhart Tolle

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

“If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.”

Eckhart Tolle

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

“Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.”

Eckhart Tolle

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

“A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.”

Eckhart Tolle

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

“In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.”

Eckhart Tolle

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

“How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.”

Eckhart Tolle book A New Earth

A New Earth (2005)

“If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet
highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time.”

Eckhart Tolle

“Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.”

Eckhart Tolle

“Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet”

Eckhart Tolle

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

“You are awareness, disguised as a person.”

Eckhart Tolle

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

“And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.”

Eckhart Tolle

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

“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”

Eckhart Tolle

“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.”

Eckhart Tolle

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

“You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.”

Eckhart Tolle

“True Power is within, and it is available now.”

Eckhart Tolle

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