Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher.

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

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.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now

Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.

The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Non- reaction is not weakness, But Strength!