1,435 Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment – allow it to be as it is – then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.

Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of “me” based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.

The ‘soul’ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who sees that.

Don’t quote the Buddha. Be the Buddha.

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.

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