Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Nota: la mente es un instrumento magnífico si se usa correctamente. Utilizada en forma inadecuada, sin embargo, se vuelve muy destructiva. Para decirlo en forma más exacta, no es tanto que usted la utilice inadecuadamente, generalmente usted no la utiliza en absoluto. Ella lo utiliza a usted. Esa es la enfermedad. Usted cree que usted es su mente. Ese es el engaño. El instru-mento se ha apoderado de usted.

Cuando la mente gobierna su vida, el conflicto, la disputa y los problemas son inevitables. Estar en contacto con su cuerpo interior crea un espacio claro de no-mente dentro del cual la relación puede florecer.

Designer labels are primarily collective identities that you buy into. They are expensive and therefore "exclusive." If everybody could buy them, they would lose their psychological value and all you would be left with would be their material value, which likely amounts to a fraction of what you paid.

Observa qué ocurre cuando, en lugar de considerar «mala» una experiencia, la aceptas internamente, le das un «sí» interno, dejándola ser como es.

Cleverness pursues its own little aims. Intelligence sees the larger whole in which all things are connected. Cleverness is motivated by self-interest, and it is extremely short-sighted. Most politicians and businesspeople are clever. Very few are intelligent. Whatever is attained through cleverness is short-lived and always turns out to be eventually self-defeating. Cleverness divides; intelligence includes.

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity — the thinker.

so when you look to the future for salvation, you are unconsciously looking to your own mind for salvation.

It belongs to a different order of reality and will create a different world when a sufficient number of humans enter the surrendered state and so become totally free of negativity. If the Earth is to survive, this will be the energy of those who inhabit it.

Is there joy, ease, and lightness in what I am doing?

But it is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obstacle to truly knowing yourself is removed.

Cuando estás presente, cuando tu atención está plena e intensamente en el ahora, puedes sentir el Ser, pero nunca podrás entenderlo mentalmente.

When you confuse the ego that you perceive in others with their identity, it is the work of your own ego that uses this misperception to strengthen itself through being right and therefore superior, and through reacting with condemnation, indignation, and often anger against the perceived enemy.

Ten years ago, A New Earth was first published. Since that time, the book has been read in forty-four languages by countless people all over the world. The in-depth webinar I did with Oprah Winfrey, during which we explored the main themes of the book, has been watched thirty-five million times. So the question naturally arises: Ten years later—where are we? Is a "new earth

I feel that the book has taken on a life and momentum of its own.

Todo lo que existe tiene Ser, tiene esencia divina, tiene algún grado de conciencia. Incluso una piedra tiene conciencia rudimentaria; de lo contrario, no sería y sus átomos y moléculas se dispersarían. Todo está vivo. El sol, la tierra, las plantas, los animales, los seres humanos, todos son expresiones de conciencia en diferentes grados, la conciencia que se manifiesta como forma.

inner state. You need to be extremely alert and absolutely present to be able to detect them. Whenever you do, it is a moment of awakening, of disidentification from the mind. Here is one of the most common negative states that is easily overlooked, precisely because

though you may be

You teach through being, through demonstrating the peace of God. You become the "light of the world," an emanation of pure consciousness, and so you eliminate suffering on the level of cause.

After that, the outer purpose is just a game that you may continue to play simply because you enjoy it.

I understood that the intense pressure of suffering that night must have forced my consciousness to withdraw from its identification with the unhappy and deeply fearful self, which is ultimately a fiction of the mind.

Solamente la Presencia puede liberarnos del ego y solamente podemos estar presentes Ahora, no ayer ni mañana. Solamente la Presencia puede deshacer el pasado que llevamos sobre los hombros y transformar nuestro estado de conciencia.

There is nothing the ego likes less than to hear about itself.

As long as you are unaware of Being, the reality of other humans will elude you, because you have not found your own. Your mind will like or dislike their form, which is not just their body but includes their mind as well. True relationship becomes possible only when there is an awareness of Being.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action — just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.