1,435 Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.

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

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.

For awhile, I was left with nothing on the physical plane. I had no relationships, no job, no home, no socially defined identity. I spent almost two years sitting on park benches in a state of the most intense joy.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

For love to flourish, the light of your presence needs to be strong enough so that you no longer get taken over by the thinker or the pain-body and mistake them for who you are. To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.