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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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.

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The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive response is the body’s direct response to some external situation. An emotion, on the other hand, is the body’s response to thought. Indirectly, an ...

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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

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When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.

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Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

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The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

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Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

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How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness.

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Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life - it is very fleeting Do not identify with your thoughts - continued indentification with the stream of thi...

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What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.

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Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

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Die before you die and find that there is no death.

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Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly -- you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease...

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The past has no power over the present moment.

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The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nati...

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the ego likes to emphasize the 'otherness' of others

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I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems” because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sor...

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When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are ...

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Religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about an ending of violence and hatred through a realization of the fundamental oneness of all life, they brought more violence and hatred, more divisions ...

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

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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

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Author Bio

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