1,435 Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change.

Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.

Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake...

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.