Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

full attention means full acceptance.

To see one's predicament clearly is a first step toward going beyond it.

The ego believes that in your resistance lies your strength. Whereas in truth, resistance cute you off from being - the only place of true power. Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

of the realm of the manifested. Continuous mind activity keeps you imprisoned in the world of form and becomes an opaque screen that prevents you from becoming conscious of the Unmanifested

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship. But true listening is a rare skill. Usually, the greater part of a person's attention is taken up by their thinking. At best, they may be evaluating your words or preparing the next thing to say. Or they may not be listening at all, lost in their own thoughts.

In form, you are and will always be inferior to some, superior to others. In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Acepta lo que venga tejido en el diseño de tu destino porque, ¿Qué podría acomodarse más adecuadamente a tus necesidades? Esto fue escrito hace dos mil años por Marco Aurelio, uno de esos seres humanos extraordinariamente escasos que tuvieron el poder mundano al mismo tiempo que la sabiduría

Are you defending your right to be unconscious, your right to suffer? Don't worry. Nobody is going to take that away from you. Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep asserting that it is okay to be sick?

Fear arises, and conflict within and without becomes the norm.

This is not to say that all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I.

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

It is your conscious Presence that breaks the identification with the pain-body. When you don't identify with it, the pain-body can no longer control your thinking and so cannot renew itself anymore by feeding on your thoughts. The pain-body in most cases does not dissolve immediately, but once you have severed the link between it and your thinking, the pain-body begins to lose energy. Your thinking ceases to be clouded by emotion; your present perceptions are no longer distorted by the past.

Acute crises and dysfunction always precede or coincide with any evolutionary advancement or gain in consciousness. All life-forms need obstacles and challenges in order to evolve. In the case of the ego, most of the challenges it encounters are self-created through its unconscious patterns. Eventually, the ego brings about its own demise. In that sense, it can be considered a necessary precursor for the next stage in human evolution, which is the awakening of consciousness.

So don't seek to become free of desire or "achieve" enlightenment. Become present. Be there as the observer of the mind. Instead of quoting the Buddha, be the Buddha, be "the awakened one," which is what the word buddha means.

the more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering — and free of the egoic mind.

Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist. The old mind­pattern or mental habit may still survive and reoccur for a while because it has the momentum of thousands of years of collective human unconsciousness behind it, but every time it is recognized, it is weakened.

You need to be alert and honest to find out, for example, whether your sense of self-worth is bound up with things you possess. Do certain things induce a subtle feeling of importance or superiority? Does the lack of them make you feel inferior to others who have more than you? Do you casually mention things you own or show them off to increase your sense of worth in someone else's eyes and through them in your own?

Este ser falso, elaborado por la mente, el ego, se siente vulnerable, inseguro y siempre está buscando cosas nuevas con las cuales identificarse para que le den una sensación de que existe.

Nur wenn du dich auf den gegenwärtigen Augenblick ausrichtest, gewinnst du Zugang zu dieser Kraft.

Sooner or later, disorder will irrupt into everyone's life no matter how many insurance policies he or she has. It

Know Thyself. What those words imply is this: Before you ask any other question, first ask the most fundamental question of your life: Who am I?

He vivido con varios maestros Zen, todos eran gatos

Vielleicht kommt es der Wahrheit näher zu sagen, dass sie Zugang zu dir gewinnt und durch dich zur Welt. Diese Kraft meinte Jesus, als er sagte: »Der Vater, der in mir wohnt, der tut seine Werke.«24 Angst, Stress und Negativität schneiden dich von dieser Kraft ab. Dann kehrt die Illusion zurück, dass du von der Kraft getrennt bist, die dieses Universum bewegt.

When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were. By