Eckhart Tolle: Quotes about life

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.”

“One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.”

“Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.”

“Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”

“Each person's life – each lifeform,
in fact – represents a world, a
unique way in which the universe experiences itself.”

“Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.”

“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.”

“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.”