Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

en muchos casos, no estás comprando un producto sino un «realzador de la identidad». Las marcas son, básicamente, identidades colectivas a las que te incorporas pagando. Son

Even if the voice is relevant to the situation at hand, it will interpret it in terms of the past. This is because the voice belongs to your conditioned mind, which is the result of all your past history as well as of the collective cultural mind-set you inherited.

expectativas ilusorias de que algo o alguien en el futuro lo salvará o lo hará feliz.

This forgetfulness is original sin, suffering, delusion. When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

Cuando se queja, se convierte en una víctima. Cuando se explica, está en posesión de su poder. Así que cambie la situación actuando o hablando claro si es necesario o posible; salga de la situación o acéptela. Lo demás es locura.

If you were conscious, that is to say totally present in the Now, all negativity would dissolve almost instantly. It could not survive in your presence.

Paradójicamente, lo que mantiene en marcha la llamada «sociedad de consumo» es el hecho de que intentar encontrarte a ti mismo a través de las cosas no funciona. La

It is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that is the main determinant of what kind of future you will experience

Your sense of who you are determines what you perceive as you needs and what matters to you in life - and whatever matters to you will have the power to upset and disturb you.

The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.

It is always the case that both victim and perpetrator suffer the consequences of any acts of violence, oppression, or brutality. For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

even their own employees, are no more than digits on a balance sheet, lifeless objects to be used, then discarded.

ancient religions, have become so overlaid with extraneous matter that their spiritual essence has become almost completely obscured by it. To a large extent, therefore, their deeper meaning is no longer recognized and their transformative power lost.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now;

the ultimate purpose of the world lies not within the world but in transcendence of the world.

He explained to them that he still lacked the sameness of bearing before all human beings, whether beggar or king. He was still unable to look through social roles and conceptual identities and see the sameness of being in every human.

NOW HERE IS YOUR SECOND CHANCE AT SURRENDER: If you cannot accept what is outside, then accept what is inside. If you cannot accept the external condition, accept the internal condition.

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.

inconsciencia ordinaria significa estar identificado con sus procesos de pensamiento y con sus emociones, sus reacciones, deseos y aversiones. Es el estado normal de la mayoría de las personas.

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself. Every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in. Whether you complain aloud or only in thought makes no difference. Some

Inner resistance is to say "no" to what is, through mental judgment and emotional negativity. It becomes particularly pronounced when things "go wrong," which means that there is a gap between the demands or rigid expectations of your mind and what is. That is the pain gap.

This is normal, and it is insane.

It will attempt to ensure its survival by finding something else to identity with, for example, a mental image of yourself as someone who has transcended all interest in material possessions and is therefore superior, is more spiritual than others. There are people who have renounced all possessions but have a bigger ego than some millionaires.

Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, obsession with things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of progress is always more. The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease.