Eckhart Tolle Quotes

You are not your mind.

If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won’t lose yourself in the external world, and you won’t lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires, may still be there to some extent, but they won’t take you over.

If you are able to stay alert and present at that time and watch whatever you feel within, rather than be taken over by it, it affords an opportunity for the most powerful spiritual practice, and a rapid transmutation of all past pain becomes possible.

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

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

The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is.

Stress is caused by being “here” but wanting to be “there”, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future.

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

You are not the voice in your mind, but the one who is aware of it.

All the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, and inner peace – arise from beyond the mind.

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.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy.

Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension.

The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

Die to the past every moment. You don’t need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor’s edge of Now — to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you.

Nothing exists outside the now.

Make it a habit to ask yourself: What’s going on inside me at this moment?

The more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering – and free of the egoic mind.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.

Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it.

Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

Eckhart Tolle Quotes