1,435 Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized.They keep millions of people sane. They have become Guardians of Being.

Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining, fear, aggression, or anger. This is important because whenever you complain about what somebody else does you're already beginning to fall into that trap of unconsciousness.

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

Presence remains even amidst worldly activities. Stillness is there even when you're doing something quickly, like rushing to answer the phone. Otherwise you would be condemned to moving in slow motion.

True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.

Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.

The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it.

If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.

We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.