Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

“Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous”

“Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.”

“Next time you say "I have nothing incommon with this person," remember that you have a great deal in common: A few yearsfrom now - two years or seventy years, it doesn't make much difference - both...”

“Time isnt precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on ...”

“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”

“The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...”

“You are awareness, disguised as a person.”

“The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive response is the bodys direct response to some external situation. An emotion, on the other hand, is...”

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

“Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is...”

“Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.”

“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, pers...”

“Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The ...”

“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”

“Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.”

“The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.”

“Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.”

“Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.”

“When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you're doing, you become stressed.”

“What you usually refer to when you say I is not who you are. By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords or the though...”