Quotes About Eckhart Tolle

When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution." — ECKHART TOLLE, THE POWER OF NOW

the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.

Nothing has ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

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

You are a human mind again, pretending to be a human being, interacting with another mind, playing a drama called "love.

If there is awareness in you, you will be able to recognize that voice in your head for what it is: an old thought, conditioned by the past. If there is awareness in you, you no longer need to believe in every thought you think. It's an old thought, no more. Awareness means Presence, and only Presence can dissolve the unconscious past in you.

This collective dysfunction has created a very unhappy and extraordinarily violent civilization that has become a threat not only to itself but also to all life on the planet.

When you are not in your body, however, an emotion can survive inside you for days or weeks, or join with other emotions of a similar frequency that have merged and become the pain-body, a parasite that can live inside you for years, feed on your energy, lead to physical illness, and make your life miserable

I was convinced that all the answers to the dilemmas of human existence could be found through the intellect, that is to say, by thinking. I didn't realize yet that thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection — you cannot cope with the future.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now;

A victim identity is the belief that the past is more powerful than the present, which is the opposite of the truth.

So if you inhabit the inner body, the outer body will grow old at a much slower rate, and even when it does, your timeless essence will shine through the outer form, and you will not give the appearance of an old person.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.

compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the space underneath your life situation.

Even mainstream medicine, although it knows very little about how the ego operates yet, is beginning to recognize the connection between negative emotional states and physical disease.

Your task is not to search for love but to find a portal through which love can enter

When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation.

The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form.

If the history of humanity were the clinical case of a single human being, the diagnosis would have to be: ... clinically insane with a few brief lucid intervals.

Emotion literally means "disturbance." The word comes from the Latin emovere, meaning "to disturb.