70+ Eckhart Tolle Quotes about Awareness, Life, and Power of Now
Learn about the power of the present moment and true awareness.
Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and author who has helped many people find inner peace and happiness through his teachings and writing.
His book "The Power of Now," has been a best-seller for many years.
He promotes the idea of living in the present moment, which can be a powerful way to find peace and contentment in life.
By focusing on the present rather than dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, it is possible to find greater clarity, focus, and enjoyment in life.
Additionally, Tolle's teachings emphasize the importance of letting go of negative thoughts and emotions, which can help people to find greater inner peace and happiness.
Finally, Tolle has a reputation for being a compassionate and compassionate teacher who is dedicated to helping people improve their lives and find greater fulfillment.
So, today let's dive into his wisdom with 70+ inspiring Eckhart Tolle quotes:
Eckhart Tolle Quotes
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“To love is to recognize yourself in another.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“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.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“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. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“This, too, will pass.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?”
— Eckhart Tolle
“All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“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.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Being must be felt. It can't be thought.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“The moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“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.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much, and forget about the joy of just Being.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“You have so much to learn from your enemies.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“The human condition: lost in thought.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“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.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“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. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.”
— Eckhart Tolle
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