1,435 Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment, your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit.

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.

Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

Whatever you do in your business comes out of a state of inner alignment with life and the source of life itself, so peace flows into whatever you do.

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.