Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Some people may feel, as I did, that they cannot live with themselves anymore. Inner peace then becomes their first priority.

Feel yourself becoming transparent, as it were, without the solidity of a material body. Now allow the noise, or whatever causes a negative reaction, to pass right through you. It is no longer hitting a solid "wall" inside you.

A veces, simplemente, basta con cambiar la manera de hacerlo. El «cómo» siempre es más importante que el «qué». Trata de conceder mucha más atención a lo que haces que al resultado que esperas obtener. Centra toda tu atención en lo que el momento te ofrezca.

ROMPE LA VIEJA ESTRUCTURA de resistencia al momento presente, de negación del presente. Convierte en práctica el hecho de retirar la atención que prestas al pasado y al futuro cuando no sean necesarios.

Es cierto que sólo una persona inconsciente intentará usar o manipular a las demás, pero es igualmente cierto que sólo una persona inconsciente puede ser usada y manipulada.

How can we drop negativity, as you suggest? By dropping it. How do you drop a piece of hot coal that you are holding in your hand?

First you stop judging yourself; then you stop judging your partner. The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance of your partner as he or she is, without needing to judge or change them in any way. That immediately takes you beyond ego. All mind games and all addictive clinging are then over.

Death is the stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to 'die before you die' --and find that there is no death

Many people use the word God to describe it; I often call it Being. The word Being explains nothing, but nor does God. Being, however, has the advantage that it is an open concept.

Todos los artistas verdaderos, lo sepan o no, crean desde un lugar de no-mente, de quietud interior. La mente entonces da forma a la visión o impulso creativo. Incluso los grandes científicos han dicho que sus grandes logros creativos llegaron en un momento de quietud mental.

liberation. But you cannot

El propósito externo pertenece a la dimensión horizontal del espacio y el tiempo; el propósito interno concierne a una profundización de su Ser en la dimensión vertical del Ahora sin tiempo.

Glimpses of love and joy or brief moments of deep peace are possible whenever a gap occurs in the stream of thought. For most people, such gaps happen rarely and only accidentally, in moments when the mind is rendered "speechless," sometimes triggered by great beauty, extreme physical exertion, or even great danger. Suddenly, there is inner stillness. And within that stillness there is a subtle but intense joy, there is love, there is peace.

What is a negative emotion? An emotion that is toxic to the body and interferes with its balance and harmonious functioning

is a shift in consciousness from mind to Being, from time to presence. Suddenly, everything feels alive, radiates energy, emanates Being.

If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

Not projecting the old emotion into situations means facing it directly within yourself.

No juzgue o condene lo que oye, porque hacerlo significaría que la misma voz ha vuelto a entrar por la puerta trasera.

The more consciousness you bring into the body, the stronger the immune system, becomes. It is as if every cell awakens and rejoices.

the ego is a derived sense of self...

The moment your attention turns to the Now, you feel a presence, a stillness, a peace. You no longer depend on the future for fulfillment and satisfaction — you don't look to it for salvation. Therefore, you are not attached to the results. Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being. You have found the life underneath your life situation. In

Even mainstream medicine, although it knows very little about how the ego operates yet, is beginning to recognize the connection between negative emotional states and physical disease.

When you feel the pain-body, don't fall into the error of thinking there is something wrong with you. Making yourself into the problem -- the ego loves that. The knowing needs to be followed by accepting.

Negativity is not intelligent. It is always of the ego.