1,435 Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.

When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being you meet - in your business and even at home, in your family - into a means to an end.

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.