Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Quality requires your Presence.

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

The world can only change from within.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.

the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

What a liberation to realize that the "voice in my head" is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.