Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.

You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

By giving your full attention to this moment, an intelligence far greater than the egoic mind enters your life.

If you can learn to accept and even welcome the endings in your life, you may find that the feeling of emptiness that initially felt uncomfortable turns into a sense of inner spaciousness that is deeply peaceful.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

People with heavy pain-bodies usually have a better chance to awaken spiritually than those with a relatively light one.

Nonreaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

I have learned to offer no resistance to what is; I have learned to allow the present moment to be and to accept the impermanent nature of all things and conditions. Thus have I found peace.

Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level.

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

When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.

The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

Make it your practice to withdraw attention from past and future whenever they are not needed. Step out of the time dimension as much as possible in everyday life.

When you fully accept that you don't know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind, and that is when a greater intelligence can operate through you.

Nature can bring you to stillness. That is its gift to you.

You don't need to own anything to feel abundant, although if you feel abundant consistently things will almost certainly come to you. Abundance comes only to those who already have it. It sounds almost unfair, but of course it isn't. It is a universal law.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

On a deeper level you are already complete, and when you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.

Negativity is not intelligent. It is always of the ego.