Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

And Rumi, the great poet and teacher of Sufism, declares: "Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire.

In present-day humans, consciousness is completely identified with its disguise. It only knows itself as form and therefore lives in fear of the annihilation of its physical or psychological form.

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.

A medida que uno crece, va formándose una imagen mental de sí mismo basada en su condicionamiento personal y cultural. A este yo fantasma lo llamamos ego.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it. If

Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness.

Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment. The deeper emotions are not really emotions at all but states of Being. Emotions exist within the realm of opposites. States of Being can be obscured, but they have no opposite. They emanate from within you as the love, joy, and peace that are aspects of your true nature.

Tú estás en el aquí y ahora, mientras que tu mente está en el futuro.

If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind

Ser libre del tiempo es ser libre de la necesidad psicológica del pasado para su identidad y del futuro para su realización.

directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

El Buda dice que el dolor o sufrimiento surge por el deseo y que para liberarnos del sufrimiento tenemos que cortar los lazos del deseo.

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego's sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you have in the eyes of others.

There is nothing you can ever do or attain that will get you closer to salvation than it is at this moment.

but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness

The false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself can then no longer survive. This is called surrender. Surrender is not weakness. There is great strength in it.

Cómo podemos abandonar la negatividad, tal como usted sugiere? Soltándola. ¿Cómo suelta un trozo de carbón caliente que tiene en la mano? ¿Cómo suelta un equipaje pesado e inútil que lleva? Reconociendo que usted no quiere sufrir el dolor o soportar la carga más y después dejándola ir.

possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind. The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it.

las personas no saben escuchar porque la mayor parte de su atención está ocupada en pensar. Prestan más atención a eso que a lo que la otra persona está diciendo

The present moment is sometimes unacceptable, unpleasant, or awful.

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.