Eckhart Tolle
Quotes
A contemporary spiritual teacher known for his writings on mindfulness and presence. His book "The Power of Now" has become a seminal work in modern spirituality, emphasizing the importance of living in the present moment and transcending the egoic mind. His teachings focus on the concept of presence as a gateway to inner peace and fulfillment, guiding individuals to experience a deeper connection to themselves and to reality beyond mental constructs.
Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger.
The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.
Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.
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.
God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.
You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.
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.
If you don't have a good relationship with the now, you don't have a good relationship with life.
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.
You get there by realizing you are already there.
If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.
Not until you surrender does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy you emanate and that then runs your life is of a much higher vibrational frequency than the mind energy that still runs the world.
The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.
The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.
Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens in service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.
Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.
To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.
Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life.
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.
Die before you die and find that there is no death.
Every human being in the human form has limitations.
