1,435 Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.

The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.

If not now, when?

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it’s measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time – past and future – the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

If you don’t mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” – and find that there is no death.