Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

To love is to recognize yourself in another.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Life isnt as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

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

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.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Man made God in his own image...

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

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

Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.Let it teach you Being.Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

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.

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

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

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, the most precious thing there is.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children dont realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called God. As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life.

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.