Eckhart Tolle quotes: wisdom from a modern day prophet.
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life”
“To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them — their past, their history, their story.”
“Most people don’t know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.”
“The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.”
“If you cannot feel your emotions, if you are cut off from them, you will eventually experience them on a purely physical level, as a physical problem or symptom.”
“As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pains and problems, we will never be free from them.”
“Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.”
“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.”
“Thought can at best point to the truth, but it never is the truth.”
“The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now.”
“Love is a state of being. Your love is not outside, it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.”
“Open your eyes and see the fear, the despair, the greed, and the violence that are all-pervasive. See the heinous cruelty and suffering on an unimaginable scale that humans have inflicted and continue to inflict on each other as well as on other life forms on the planet.”
“You get there by realizing that you already are there”
“You cannot pay attention to silence without simultaneously becoming still within.”
“The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.”