Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

The future never comes. Life is always now.

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

Now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

It's always Now.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

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

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

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.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.

A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.