Eckhart Tolle: To love is to Recognize Yourself in Another

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them - while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease.
― Eckhart Tolle

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.
― Eckhart Tolle

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

All problems are illusions of the mind.
― Eckhart Tolle, Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
― Eckhart Tolle

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.
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

To love is to recognize yourself in another.
― Eckhart Tolle