Inspiring Quotes by Eckhart Tolle
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The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.

Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.

Every human being in the human form has limitations.

The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature -- The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.

Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form.

Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate.

Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.

The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality.

Everything is honoured, but nothing matters.

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

Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole live like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one.

The most important healing -- realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence of healing.

You get there by realizing you are already there.

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.

When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same as when major things seem to go wrong in your life and there is upset.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.

The present moment is all you ever have.

When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.

In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present. It also raises the vibrational frequency of the energy field that give life to the physical body.

This is the essence for every human being to realize that who they are, essentially, is far more than the physical body and is far more than the mental body, the psychological makeup, the psychological me body. Who they are is far deeper than that.

We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.

You create a good future by creating a good present.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love -- you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature.

Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.

When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.

Not until you surrender does the spiritual dimension become a living reality in your life. When you do, the energy you emanate and that then runs your life is of a much higher vibrational frequency than the mind energy that still runs the world.

For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don't even need to be fully awakened for this to happen, but if it does happen it certainly means you are awakening.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.

Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche.

The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.

Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people. Transcendence of the world is to act and to interact without any self-seeking.

Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.

Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature.

By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords. (p. 28).

Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there.

The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.

Each person's life -- each lifeform, in fact -- represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves.

The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.

Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.

Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Doing is never enough if you neglect being.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

Become conscious of being conscious.

To love is to recognize yourself in another.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while.

Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.