Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century spiritual teacher, summed it all up beautifully: "Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time.

When you reconnect with Being and are no longer run by your mind, you cease to create those things. You do not create or participate in drama anymore.

I love the Buddha's simple definition of enlightenment as "the end of suffering." There is nothing superhuman in that, is there?

So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presence power. It generates an energy field in you and around you of a high vibrational frequency.

compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

When you see and accept the impermanent nature of all life forms, a strange sense of peace comes upon you.

Cái Ch?t không ph?i là ??i cá»±c c?a ??i s?ng. ??i s?ng là má»™t cái gì không có ??i cá»±c. ??i cá»±c c?a cái ch?t là sá»± tái sinh. Còn ??i s?ng thì vô t?n.

The "second coming" of Christ is a transformation of human consciousness, a shift from time to presence, from thinking to pure consciousness, not the arrival of some man or woman. If "Christ" were to return tomorrow in some externalized form, what could he or she possibly say to you other than this: "I am the Truth. I am divine presence. I am eternal life. I am within you. I am here. I am Now.

Am I at ease at this moment?" is a good question to ask yourself frequently. Or you can ask: "What's going on inside me at this moment?

A Buddhist monk once told me: "All I have learned in the twenty years that I have been a monk I can sum up in one sentence: All that arises passes away. This I know." What he meant, of course, was this: I have learned to offer no resistance to what is; I have learned to allow the present moment to be and to accept the impermanent nature of all things and conditions. Thus have I found peace.

BEAUTY ARISES IN THE STILLNESS OF YOUR PRESENCE

If you are run by your mind, although you have no choice you will still suffer the consequences of your unconsciousness, and you will create further suffering. You will bear the burden of fear, conflict, problems, and pain. The suffering thus created will eventually force you out of your unconscious state.

To go beyond the mind and reconnect with the deeper reality of Being, very different qualities are needed: surrender, nonjudgment, an openness that allows life to be instead of resisting it[.]

I want you to achieve what I never achieved; I want you to be somebody in the eyes of the world, so that I too can be somebody through you. Don't disappoint me. I sacrificed so much for you. My disapproval of you is intended to make you feel so guilty and uncomfortable that you finally conform to my wishes. And it goes without saying that I know what's best for you. I love you and I will continue to love you if you do what I know is right for you.

If you believe only your religion is the Truth, you are using it in the service of the ego. used in such a way, religion becomes ideology and creates an illusory sense of superiority as well as division and conflict between people.

Mõistus vaikib suure ilu jalge ees.

El miedo psicológico del que hablamos siempre se refiere a algo que podría ocurrir, no a algo que ya está ocurriendo.

It is a mind-structure needed for sensory perception, indispensable for practical purposes, but the greatest hindrance to knowing yourself.

True intelligence operates silently.

The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is.

Do not fight against the body, for in doing so you are fighting against your own reality. You are your body. The body that you can see and touch is only a thin illusory veil. Underneath it lies the invisible inner body, the doorway into Being, into Life Unmanifested. Through the inner body, you are inseparably connected to this unmanifested One Life — birthless, deathless, eternally present. Through the inner body, you are forever one with God.

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do then is "ride the wave.

Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist. The old mind-pattern 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.