Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Thought can at best point to the truth, but it never is the truth.

Since you cannot be unhappy without an unhappy story, this was the end of her unhappiness. It was also the beginning of the end of her pain-body. Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness.

Ultimately, there is only one problem: the time-bound mind itself. There is no salvation in time. You cannot be free in the future. PRESENCE IS THE KEY to freedom, so you can only be free now.

What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.

You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.

El mensaje de Eckhart es: el problema de la humanidad está profundamente arraigado en la mente misma. O más bien, en nuestra identificación errónea con nuestra mente.

The fact is: Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. You are withholding it because deep down you think you are small and that you have nothing to give.

Cuanto más identificado esté con su pensamiento, sus gustos y sus odios, sus juicios e interpretaciones, es decir cuanto menos presente esté como la conciencia que observa, más fuerte será la carga de energía emocional

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation.

Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.

La salud mental — la conciencia — sólo puede llegar a este mundo a través de usted.

The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself. If everyone lived in a mansion or everyone was wealthy, your mansion or your wealth would no longer serve to enhance your sense of self.

Once you have disidentified from your mind, whether you are right or wrong makes no difference to your sense of self at all, so the forcefully compulsive and deeply unconscious need to be right, which is a form of violence, will no longer be there. You can state clearly and firmly how you feel or what you think, but there will be no aggressiveness or defensiveness about it. Your sense of self is then derived from a deeper and truer place within yourself, not from the mind.

Las necesidades del ego son infinitas. Se siente vulnerable y amenazado y por lo tanto vive en un estado de miedo y de carencia.

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are.

Como una mariposa que revolotea de una flor a otra, la mente se aferra a las experiencias pasadas o, proyectando su propia película, anticipa lo que va a venir. Rara vez nos encontramos descansando en la profundidad oceánica del aquí y ahora.

If you continue to pursue the goal of salvation through a relationship, you will be disillusioned again and again. But if you accept that the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world. For those who hold on to the old patterns, there will be increasing pain, violence, confusion, and madness.

psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now. You are in the here and now, while your mind is in the future. This creates an anxiety gap.

The energy that was trapped in the pain-body then changes its vibrational frequency and is transmuted into Presence. In this way, the pain-body becomes fuel for consciousness. This is why many of the wisest, most enlightened men and women on our planet once had a heavy pain-body.

empiece por concentrar su atención en el campo de energía interior de su cuerpo. Sienta el cuerpo desde dentro. Esto también lo pondrá en contacto con sus emociones. Exploraremos esto con más detalle más adelante.

Separe el tiempo de la mente y esta se detendrá

PARENTHOOD: ROLE OR FUNCTION? Many

As people have become more and more mind-identified, which is the intensification of egoic dysfunction, there has also been a dramatic increase in the incidence of anorexia in recent decades. If the sufferer could look at her body without the interfering judgments of her mind or even recognize those judgments for what they are instead of believing in them—or better still, if she could feel her body from within—this would initiate her healing.

quiere crear más dolor para usted y para los demás, si no quiere aumentar más el residuo de sufrimiento pasado que aún vive en usted, no cree más tiempo, o al menos no más del necesario para manejar los aspectos prácticos de su vida. ¿Cómo detener la producción de tiempo? Dése cuenta profundamente de que el momento presente es todo lo que tiene.