1,435 Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept – before they will forgive.

For the ego to survive, it must make time – past and future – more important than the present moment.

An emotion is your body’s reaction to your mind.

Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It’s good for the body and it’s good for the soul.

I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. ‘You drink alcohol?!’ Well, if my state of consciousness is so fragile that a glass of wine would upset it, then it can’t be worth very much.

Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions – what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver.

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so – your resistance is.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.