Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

At times you may have to take practical steps to protect yourself from deeply unconscious people. This you can do without making them into enemies. Your greatest protection, however, is being conscious.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection — you cannot cope with the future.

The person who is talking and making promises, however, is not the entity that commits the violence, and so you can be sure that it will happen again and again unless he becomes present, recognizes the pain-body within himself, and thus disidentifies from it.

An increasingly heavy burden of time has been accumulating in the human mind. All individuals are suffering under this burden, but they also keep adding to it every moment whenever they ignore or deny that precious moment or reduce it to a means of getting to some future moment, which only exists in the mind, never in actuality. The

Ask yourself often: 'What can I give here; how can I be of service to this person, this situation?

Cuando la conciencia se libera de su identificación con las formas físicas y mentales, se vuelve lo que podemos llamar conciencia pura o iluminada, o presencia.

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity — the thinker. Knowing this enables you to observe the entity. 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

dimension comes a different kind of knowing

un pensamiento está en su mente, una emoción tiene un fuerte componente físico

Feel your whole body from within, as a single field of energy. It is almost as if you were listening or reading with your whole body. Let this be your practice in the days and weeks to come. Do not give all your attention away to the mind and the external world. By all means focus on what you are doing, but feel the inner body at the same time whenever possible. Stay rooted within. Then observe how this changes your state of consciousness and the quality of what you are doing.

The compulsion to do, and the tendency to derive your sense of self-worth and identity from external factors such as achievement, is an inevitable illusion as long as you are identified with the mind. This makes it hard or impossible for you to accept the low cycles and allow them to be.

Will you become less when you let go of it?

the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat.

Nonreaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for nonreaction is forgiveness.

Descartes, of course, the French philosopher said: I think therefore I am. If he had waited a little bit longer before saying anything, he could have come to the point of cessation of thinking and then he could have made the more profound statement: I am conscious therefore I am. Thinking is only an expression of consciousness: a surface expression of consciousness.

That is the joy of Being,' I said. 'You can only feel it when you get out of your head. Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

Enlightenment consciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life.

Due to a complete lack of self-awareness, they cannot tell the difference between an event and their reaction to the event.

All it means it that sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

Surrender to what is. Say "yes" to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

un pensamiento está en su mente, una emoción tiene un fuerte componente físico, por lo tanto se siente primariamente en el cuerpo.

Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.