Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Whatever behavior the ego manifests, the hidden motivating force is always the same: the need to stand out, be special, be in control; the need for power, for attention, for more.

But don't let it go to your head, because up there is where a remnant of ego may be hiding. You are still an ordinary human. What is extraordinary is what comes through you into this world. But that essence you share with all beings.

El fracaso se esconde en cada éxito y el éxito en cada fracaso.

DIE TO THE PAST EVERY MOMENT. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present.

An] unconscious fear of facing the pain [...] lives in you. But if you don't face it, if you don't bring the light of your consciousness into the pain, you will be forced to relive it again and again.

A victim identity is the belief that the past is more powerful than the present, which is the opposite of the truth. It is the belief that other people and what they did to you are responsible for who you are now, for your emotional pain or your inability to be your true self. The truth is that the only power there is contained within this moment: It is the power of your presence.

The mind then creates an obsession with the future as an escape from the unsatisfactory present.

No ser capaz de dejar de pensar es una calamidad terrible, pero no nos damos cuenta de ello así que se considera normal. Este ruido mental incesante nos impide encontrar ese reino de quietud interior que es inseparable del Ser. También

Now remember that an emotion is the body's reaction to your mind.

As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment. It represents the most profound transformation of consciousness that you can imagine.

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. Become aware of the stillness. When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative. In any thought activity, make it a habit to go back and forth every few minutes or so between thinking and an inner kind of listening, an inner stillness. We could say: don't just think with your head, think with your whole body.

Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine

while a thought is in your head, an emotion has a strong physical component and so is primarily felt in the body.

If all your problems or perceived causes of suffering or unhappiness were miraculously removed for you today, but you had not become more present, more conscious, you would soon find yourself with a similar set of problems or causes of suffering, like a shadow that follows you wherever you go. Ultimately, there is only one problem: the time-bound mind itself.

How to stop creating time? Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living

You do not need to wait for the world to become sane, or for somebody else to become conscious, before you can be enlightened

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness.

Las identificaciones del ego más comunes tienen que ver con las posesiones, el trabajo que uno hace, el nivel social y el reconocimiento, el conocimiento y la educación, la apariencia física, las habilidades especiales, las relaciones, la historia personal y familiar, los sistemas de creencias y también a menudo identificaciones políticas, nacionalistas, raciales, religiosas y otras de carácter colectivo. Ninguna de ellas es usted.

the pain-body is there because of certain things that happened in the past. It is the living past in you, and if you identify with it, you identify with the past.

True change happens within, not without.

It read: 'Danger. All structures are unstable.' I said to my friend, 'That's a profound sutra [sacred scripture].' And we stood there in awe. Once you realize and accept that all structures (forms) are unstable, even the seemingly solid material ones, peace arises within you. This is because the recognition of the impermanence of all forms awakens you to the dimension of the formless within yourself, that which is beyond death.

your dwelling place in the Now and pay