Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

When you say "yes" to the "isness" of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.

Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.

The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.

Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

The truth is: you don't have a life, you are life.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you.

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.