Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

La identificación con su mente, que hace que el pensamiento se vuelva compulsivo. No ser capaz de dejar de pensar es una calamidad terrible, pero no nos damos cuenta de ello así que se considera normal. Este ruido mental incesante nos impide encontrar ese reino de quietud interior que es inseparable del Ser. También crea un falso ser hecho por la mente que arroja una sombra de temor y de sufrimiento.

Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice.

When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.

Cuando usted honra, reconoce y acepta plenamente su realidad presente — dónde está, quién es, qué está haciendo ahora mismo — cuando acepta plenamente lo que tiene, usted está agradecido de lo que tiene, de lo que es, de Ser. La gratitud por el momento presente y por la plenitud de la vida ahora es la verdadera prosperidad.

greater part of human suffering is not due to natural disasters, but is inflicted by humans on one another.

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, can not come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event – through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you – ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

If you think you are so enlightened," Ram Dass said, "go and spend a week with your parents.

people who are reaching a point where they become capable of breaking out of inherited collective mind-patterns that have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

Because we live in such a mind-dominated culture, most modern art, architecture, music, and literature are devoid of beauty, of inner essence, with very few exceptions

Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life — to allow life to live through you. The alternatives are pain and suffering, a greatly restricted flow of life energy, and in many cases physical disease.

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.

Abandone la espera como un estado mental. Cuando se sorprenda a sí mismo cayendo en ella...salga inmediatamente.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves.

It has been said: "Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.

Naming and labeling are habitual, but that habit can be broken. Start practicing "not naming" with small things. If you miss the plane, drop and break a cup, or slip and fall in the mud, can you refrain from naming the experience as bad or painful? Can you immediately accept the "isness" of that moment? Naming something as bad causes an emotional contraction within you. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is suddenly available to you. The

So love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.

So, whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware at that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens, your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.

After you have tasted it, the word becomes less important to you. You won't be attached to it anymore. Similarly, you can talk or think about God continuously for the rest of your life, but does that mean you know or have even glimpsed the reality to which the word points? It really is no more than an obsessive attachment

There is nothing that you need to understand before you can become present.

In the seeing of who you are not, the reality of who you are emerges by itself.

Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there," or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane.

When a log that has only just started to burn is placed next to one that is burning fiercely, and after a while they are separated again, the first log will be burning with much greater intensity. After all, it is the same fire. To be such a fire is one of the functions of a spiritual teacher.

The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire.

Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.