1,435 Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

That one step is called surrender. I do not mean to say that you will become happy in such a situation. You will not. But fear and pain will become transmuted into inner peace.

The secret of life is to 'die before you die' - and find that there is no death.

You are the universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while.

As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pains and problems, we will never be free from them.

The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.