Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

The only thing you ever have is now.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Leave life alone. Let it be.

The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.

When you live as a friend of the now, many changes come into your life.

You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself.

God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.

And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment.

Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.