Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Nietzsche, in a rare moment of deep stillness, wrote, "For happiness, how little suffices for happiness!…the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance—little maketh up the best happiness. Be still.

Everything is honored, but nothing matters.

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.

Be where you are. Look around. Just look, don't interpret. See the light, shapes, colors, textures. Be aware of the silent presence of each thing. Be aware of the space that allows everything to be.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time -- surrendered to life.

You discover that a "bored person" is not who you are. Boredom is simply a conditioned energy movement within you. Neither are you an angry, sad, or fearful person. Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go.

Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.

To know another human being in their essence, you don't really need to know anything about them — their past, their history, their story.

You can only be in a state of non-reaction if you can recognize someone's behavior as coming from the ego, as being an expression of the collective human dysfunction. When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.

Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond...If you fight it, you're stuck with it.

next time you say, «I have nothing in common with this person,» remember that you have a great deal in common: A few years from now - two years or seventy years, it doesn't make much difference - both of you will have become rotting corpses, then piles of dust, then nothing at all. This is a sobering and humbling realization that leaves little room for pride. [... ] In that sense , there is total equality between you and every other creature.

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in 'just being'. Allow nature to teach you stillness. When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself.

Become at ease with the state of "not knowing.

Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.

Deny thy self!

DO NOT BE CONCERNED WITH THE FRUIT OF YOUR ACTION — just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. This is a powerful spiritual practice.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.