Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.

This is my secret, he said. I don't mind what happens.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

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

Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

If not now, when?

What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not "the thinker." The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn't very much.

Man made God in his own image...

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.