Eckhart Tolle Life Quotations

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

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.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.

Leave life alone. Let it be.

What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God.

Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here to generate consciousness through the activities of daily life, through their interactions with others as well as through "just being."

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

True communication is communion-the realization of oneness, which is love.

The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

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

The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh. How could humanity have been taken in by this for so long? Above all, know that the ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

Being rich/wealthy is being in touch with the fullness of life. When you are open to the present moment, what comes in, is a gratitude for "what is". When you are aligned with the present moment, there is a peace that comes, so it is like you are experiencing life for the first time, when you become present. When you are in a state of gratitude for what is ... that is really what being wealthy means

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 the moment.

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.

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.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're just things that haven't happened yet, things that could happen tomorrow or next week. Listening to unreal problems has another name: worrying. That's what the voice in your head does. It what-ifs. It frets. It agonizes, and you can no longer sense the joy of life.

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

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