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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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

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The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and wh...

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You are not a problem that needs solving.

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Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

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Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already ...

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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

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The only thing you ever have is now.

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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

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You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.

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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 fi...

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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

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The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

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Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

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Author Bio

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