Eckhart Tolle citations

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“Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.”

“If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.”

“What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.”

“Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.”

“Whenever you
become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight
of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is
primary, all else secondary.”

“In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.”

“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”

“To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.”

“Man made God in his own image…”

“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”

“Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.”

“Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.”

“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.”

“The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.”

“Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.”

“Become conscious of being conscious.”

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

“You have so much to learn from your enemies.”

“every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.”

“Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.”

“Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.”

“You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.”

“Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.”

“Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.”

“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.”

“The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.”

“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.”

“Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.”