1,435 Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there" or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everybody else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.

Different ages have certain approaches, which may be more effective for one age and no longer effective in another age. The world that we live in now has much greater density to it; it is much more all-pervasive. And when I say "world," I include the human mind in it. The human mind has grown even since the time of the Buddha, 2,500 years ago. The human mind is more noisy and more all-pervasive, and the egos are bigger.

Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.

The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.