Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) is a German-born spiritual teacher and self-help author. His books include the bestselling The Power of Now and A New Earth. Tolle shares teachings focused on presence and awakening. He draws insights from various traditions. His work has reached a wide audience worldwide.

Quote by Eckhart Tolle: To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual ...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind ...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself be...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some i...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: The moment you realize you are not present, you are present....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetua...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things dro...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition ...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ul...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: This is my secret,
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Ins...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inne...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be t...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Being must be felt. It can't be thought....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: I've received more and more emails from teachers saying that they are beginning to teach presence in...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed ...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Things are both getting better and getting worse. The madness is accelerating but an acceleration of...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment....
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Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Ask yourself what problem you have right now. Not next year, tomorrow or five minutes from now. You ...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: It is important to realize that a large percentage of what we hear or see on the news focuses on tho...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one ...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You a...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Be alert as you watch a dog at play or at rest. Let the animal teach you to feel at home in the now,...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, thi...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not ...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not jud...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want fr...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do ...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: I never went out and said,
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life v...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you fe...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your abi...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Become conscious of being conscious....
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The f...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're j...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it,...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the uncondi...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now....