Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

You create a good future by creating a good present.

The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.

God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.

Oprah [Winfrey] and I share a similar consciousness of spirit that is manifested in what some may call God or simply Spirit but others call it the Godhead manifestation of karmic virtue.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

I believe from what I can see there is a good chance the shift will happen in humanity before it is too late.

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.

The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.

Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home—because you are home.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.

Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.

But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.

Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity.

Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.