Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being. It also creates a false mind-made self that casts a shadow of fear and suffering.

I try to find myself in things but never quite make it and end up losing myself in them. That is the fate of the ego.

When you are not in your body, however, an emotion can survive inside you for days or weeks, or join with other emotions of a similar frequency that have merged and become the pain-body, a parasite that can live inside you for years, feed on your energy, lead to physical illness, and make your life miserable

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position—a perspective, an opinion, a judgment, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, and so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right. In other words: You need to make others wrong in order to get a stronger sense of who you are.

Be present as the watcher of your mind- of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations

Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire

Once you have decided you want the present moment to be your friend, it is up to you to make the first move: Become friendly toward it, welcome it no matter in what disguise it comes, and soon you will see the results. Life becomes friendly toward you; people become helpful, circumstances cooperative. One decision changes your entire reality. But that one decision you have to make again and again and again—until it becomes natural to live in such a way.

Either stop doing what you are doing, speak to the person concerned and express fully what you feel, or drop the negativity that your mind has created around the situation and that serves no purpose whatsoever except to strengthen a false sense of self.

In a true emergency, the mind stops; you become totally present in the Now, and something infinitely more powerful takes over.

fed up with being unhappy." Some people may feel, as I did, that they cannot live with themselves anymore. Inner peace then becomes their first priority.

Ne tražite sre?u. Ako je tražite, ne?ete je na?i, jer je traženje suprotnost sre?i. Sre?a uvijek vješto izmi?e, ali slobodu od nesre?e možete posti?i ovoga trenutka suo?avaju?i se sa stvarnoš?u, umjesto da o njoj izmišljate pri?e.

In normal everyday usage, I embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had deep insights not only into the reality of space an time, but also into human nature, referred to as an optical illusion of consciousness.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

Awareness means Presence, and only Presence can dissolve the unconscious past in you.

happiness and unhappiness are in fact one. Only the illusion of time separates them.

?ak i kad je nebo prekriveno teškim oblacima, nije rije? o tome da je Sunce nestalo. Sunce je još uvijek ondje, iza oblaka.

This is beautifully expressed in the Zen saying "The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place.

There are many people who are always waiting for the next thing to react against, to feel annoyed or disturbed about—and it never takes long before they find it. "This is an outrage," they say. "How dare you…." "I resent this." They are addicted to upset and anger as others are to a drug. Through reacting against this or that they assert and strengthen their feeling of self.

Get out of your head and into the moment.

A situation needs to be either dealt with or accepted. Why make it into a problem?

To do whatever is required of you in any situation without it becoming a role that you identify with is an essential lesson in the art of living that each one of us is here to learn. You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

Enthusiasm and the ego cannot coexist.

You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness has identified with. That's the peace of God. The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.