Eckhart Tolle Quotes

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”

“Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.”

“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

“Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?”

“Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”

“Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.”

“Every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.”

“Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem.

Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.”

“Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.”

“Man made God in his own image...”

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”

“This is my secret, he said. I don't mind what happens.”

“To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.”

“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

“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.”

“You have so much to learn from your enemies.”