Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth

Because we all carry the Truth within us as our essence, we recognize it immediately.

To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Instead of asking, "what do I want from life?," a more powerful question is, "what does life want from me?

Life wants to support you. But first you need to be open to life.

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.

Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

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

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.