Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

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 peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go.

When you create a problem, you create pain. All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.

The Now is also central to the teaching of Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam. Sufis have a saying: "The Sufi is the son of time present." And Rumi, the great poet and teacher of Sufism, declares: "Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire." Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century spiritual teacher, summed it all up beautifully: "Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time.

making yourself right and others wrong is one of the principal ego mind patterns, one of the main forms of unconsciousness.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

Your mind is telling you that you cannot get there from here. Something needs to happen, or you need to become this or that before you can be free and fulfilled. It is saying, in fact, that you need time - that you need to find, sort out, do, achieve, acquire, become, or understand something before you can be free or complete. You see time as the means to salvation, whereas in truth it is the greatest obstacle to salvation.

And the miracle is that when you are no longer placing an impossible demand on it, every situation, person, place, or event becomes not only satisfying but also more harmonious, more peaceful.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

beautiful flowers that are not anxious about tomorrow but live with ease in the timeless Now

Whenever you are in a negative state, there is something in you that wants the negativity, that perceives it as pleasurable, or that believes it will get you what you want.

You are then like an apparently poor person who does not know he has a bank account with $100 million in it and so his wealth remains an unexpressed potential.

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

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Belief in a future heaven creates a present hell.

The wider the time gap between perception and thought, the more depth there is to you as a human being, which is to say the more conscious you are.

Once the ego has found an identity, it does not want to let go. Amazingly but not infrequently, the ego in search of a stronger identity can and does create illnesses in order to strengthen itself through them.

The fact that everyone else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.

Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease, and lightness in what I am doing? If there isn't, then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be Spirit rather than a little me, you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. You would immediately accept the situation and thus become one with it rather than separate yourself from it.

why Human should not look at the past?

Once you have a theory, it's not too hard to find evidence to substantiate it, at least until some other theory comes along.

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