Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

If the history of humanity were the clinical case of a single human being, the diagnosis would have to be: ... clinically insane with a few brief lucid intervals.

No puedes amar a tu compañero o compañera un momento y atacarle al siguiente. El verdadero amor no tiene opuesto.

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.

Close your eyes and say to yourself: I wonder what my next thought is going to be. Then become as alert as a cat watching a mouse hole. You may find that, as long as you are absolutely alert, the next thought does not arise

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Cualquiera que sea la sustancia que origine la adicción —alcohol, comida, drogas (legales o ilegales) o una persona—, estás usando algo o a alguien para encubrir tu dolor.

Once you have understood the basic principle of being present as the watcher of what happens inside you — and you "understand" it by experiencing it — you have at your disposal the most potent transformational tool.

In most ancient cultures, people believed that everything, even so-called inanimate objects, had an indwelling spirit, and in this respect they were closer to the truth than we are today.

the Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of the mind. It is your only point of access into the timeless and formless realm of Being.

You will not be free of that pain until you cease to derive your sense of self from identification with the mind, which is to say from ego.

Descartes believed that he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking.

Emotion literally means "disturbance." The word comes from the Latin emovere, meaning "to disturb.

Being. Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to incessant thinking. What an incredible liberation this is!

Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

Judgment is either to confuse someone's unconscious behavior with who they are or to project your own unconsciousness onto another person and mistake that for who they are.

Trying to become a good or better human being sounds like a commendable and high-minded thing to do, yet it is an endeavor you cannot ultimately succeed in unless there is a shift in consciousness.

La condición psicológica del miedo está divorciada de cualquier peligro inmediato concreto y verdadero. Se presenta de muchas formas: incomodidad, preocupación, ansiedad, nerviosismo, tensión, temor, fobia, etcétera. Este tipo de miedo psicológico se refiere siempre a algo que podría pasar, no a algo que está ocurriendo ahora. Usted está en el aquí y ahora mientras que su mente está en el futuro. Esto crea una brecha de ansiedad.

The ego believes that through negativity it can manipulate reality and get what it wants. It believes that through it, it can attract a desirable condition or dissolve an undesirable one. A Course in Miracles rightly points out that, whenever you are unhappy, there is the unconscious belief that the unhappiness "buys" you what you want. If "you" — the mind — did not believe that unhappiness works, why would you create it?

The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.

It is true that only an unconscious person will try to use or manipulate others, but it is equally true that only an unconscious person can be used and manipulated.

what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment

how "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness.

The greatest obstacle to experiencing the reality of your connectedness is identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive.

how "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness. This, in turn, determines how you act in the world and interact with others.