Here are 25 Enlightening Quotes by Eckhart Tolle on Life, Suffering, and Happiness
1. “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.”
2. “Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.”
3. “The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”
4. “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.”
5. “Let me say it again: the present moment is all you ever have.”
6. “To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for your inner state at any given moment. That means now.”
7. “Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”
8. “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
9. “You are not the voice in your mind, but the one who is aware of it.”
10. “To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them — their past, their history, their story.”
11. “Die to the past every moment. You don’t need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.”
12. “Be true to life by being true to your inner purpose. As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.”
13. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
14. “Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
15. “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
16. “In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much, and forget about the joy of just Being.”
17. “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.”
18. “Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.”
19. “On a deeper level, you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.”
20. “The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.”
21. “When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”
22. “The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of the ego.”
23. “Suppression of the feminine principle has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche.”
24.. “When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”
25. “If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you’re back in time.”
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