Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now — that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality. Slipping away from the present moment even for a second may mean death. Unfortunately, they come to depend on a particular activity to be in that state.

Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well-being and inner peace, the source of true happiness.

It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry, or hard-done-by person. You

Lo que el ego no sabe, por supuesto, es que sólo abandonando la resistencia, haciéndote «vulnerable», puedes descubrir tu verdadera y esencial invulnerabilidad.

What could be more heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light. Some carbons, under inconceivable heat and pressure, turn into diamonds, and some heavy minerals into other precious stones.

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A depth returns to your life.

most humans see only the outer forms, unaware of the inner essence, just as they are unaware of their own essence and identify only with their own physical and psychological form.

The ego loves to complain and feel resentful not only about other people but also about situations.

Death is a 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.

Do you hear that dog barking in the distance? Or that car passing by? Listen carefully. Can you feel the presence of the Unmanifested in that? You can't? Look for it in the silence out of which the sounds come and into which they return. Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

As you grow up, you form a mental image of who you are, based on your personal and cultural conditioning. We may call this phantom self the ego. It consists of mind activity and can only be kept going through constant thinking.

The mind is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you? It constantly projects itself into the future to ensure its continued survival and to seek some kind of release or fulfillment there.

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the now. I am.

Knowing the oneness of yourself and the other is true love, true care, true compassion.

You cannot pay attention to silence without simultaneously becoming still within. Silence without, stillness within.

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness and creativity.

La razón por la que a algunas personas les encanta embarcarse en actividades peligrosas, como el montañismo, las carreras de autos u otras, aunque puede que no sean conscientes de ello, es que los fuerzan a entrar en el Ahora, ese estado intensamente vívido que está libre del tiempo, libre de problemas, libre del pensamiento, libre del peso de la personalidad.

El reconocimiento y la aceptación de los hechos te permite cierta libertad respecto a ellos.

reading The Power of Now

The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought—or the emotion or sense perception

The content you identify with is conditioned by your environment, your upbringing, and surrounding culture.

all the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind.

If you can recognize, even occasionally, the thoughts that go through your mind as simply thoughts, if you can witness your own mental-emotional reactive patterns as they happen, then that dimension is already emerging in you as the awareness in which thoughts and emotions happen — the timeless inner space in which the content of your life unfolds.

estamos conectados, más que separados, con el resto de la vida y el espectro completo de la conciencia comprende tanto la dimensión física como una multitud de dimensiones no físicas de la realidad.