Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

About Eckhart Tolle:

Eckhart Tolle is a German-born resident of Canada, best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth. In 2011, he was listed by the Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world. In 2008, a New York Times writer called Tolle "the most popular spiritual author in the United States".
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The mind-identified state is severely dysfunctional.

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Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now...

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The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

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Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.

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All problems are illusions of the mind.

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I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

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

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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 wit...

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Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present...

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To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

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To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaki...

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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...

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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

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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 bu...

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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear...

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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of t...

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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.

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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameEckhart Tolle
  • BornFebruary 16, 1948
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionWriter
  • WorksThe Power Of Now; A New Earth