Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

The moment you truly forgive, you have reclaimed your power from the mind.

End the delusion of time. Time and mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops — unless you choose to use it. To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

That one step is called surrender. I do not mean to say that you will become happy in such a situation. You will not. But fear and pain will become transmuted into inner peace.

when they identify relativism, the belief that there is no absolute truth to guide human behavior, as one of the evils of our times; but you won't find absolute truth if you look for it where it cannot be found: in doctrines, ideologies, sets of rules, or stories.

The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.

When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution.

When instead of acting against a situation, you merge with it, the solution arises out of the situation itself.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie-making. Our very Presence then becomes our identity, rather than our thoughts and emotions.

listen to the voice in your head, be there as the witnessing presence.

This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

When you are fully conscious, you cease to be in conflict. "No one who is at one with himself can even conceive of conflict," states A Course in Miracles.

nobody can go through childhood without suffering emotional pain. Even if both of your parents were enlightened, you would still find yourself growing up in a largely unconscious world.

In other words, the content of the ego may change; the mind structure that keeps it alive does not.

There are cycles of success, when things come to you and thrive, and cycles of failure, when they wither or disintegrate and you have to let them go in order to make room for new things to arise, or for transformation to happen. If you cling and resist at that point, it means you are refusing to go with the flow of life, and you will suffer.

Transformation is through the body, not away from it.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake.

In the service of the Truth, religious teachings represent signposts or maps left behind by awakened humans to assist you in spiritual awakening, that is to say, in becoming free of identification with form.

There is nothing wrong with striving to improve your life situation. You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life.

Thinking has become a disease. Disease happens when things get out of balance. For example, there is nothing wrong with cells dividing and multiplying in the body, but when this process continues in disregard of the total organism, cells proliferate and we have disease.

There is only one absolute Truth, and all other truths emanate from it.

If the shutters are closed, the sunlight cannot come in.

Ego takes everything personally. Emotion arises, defensiveness, perhaps even aggression.

if a word doesn't work for you anymore, then drop it and replace it with one that does work.