1,435 Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.

Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.

Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.

The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.

You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?"

Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one of those present, a monk called Mahakasyapa, began to smile. He is said to have been the only one who had understood the sermon. According to legend, that smile (that is to say, realization) was handed down by twenty-eight successive masters and much later became the origin of Zen.

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.