Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Most ancient religions and spiritual traditions share the common insight—that our "normal" state of mind is marred by a fundamental defect.

The Power of Now

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.

The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem. no sutterns. nothing that is not wro you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time: it cannot survive in the Now.

The down cycle is absolutely essential for spiritual realization. You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be failure.

St. Paul expressed this universal principle beautifully: "Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form.

You can still be active and enjoy manifesting and creating new forms and circumstances, but you won't be identified with them. You do not need them to give you a sense of self. They are not your life — only your life situation.

Je mehr gemeinsame Vergangenheit eine Beziehung hat, umso gegenwärtiger musst du sein, wenn du nicht gezwungen werden willst, immer wieder diese Vergangenheit zu leben.

Or when you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence. There is one certain criterion by which you can measure your success in this practice: the degree of peace that you feel within.

Both abundance and scarcity are inner states that manifest as your reality.

Each person's life, each life-form infact, represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself. And when your form dissolves, a world comes to an end - one of countless worlds.

What matters to you is not necessarily what you say or believe, but what your actions and reactions reveal as important and serious to you.

Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now. The

The ego thrives on others' attention, which is after all a form of psychic energy. The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking.

Si no puedes sentirte a gusto cuando estás solo, buscarás una relación para remediar tu inquietud.

If you have difficulty feeling your emotions, start by focusing attention on the inner energy field of your body. Feel the body from within. This will also put you in touch with your emotions

Así que es esencial traer más conciencia a su vida en las situaciones ordinarias cuando todo transcurre con relativa facilidad. De esta forma, usted crece en poder de presencia. Eso genera un campo de energía en usted y alrededor de usted de una gran frecuencia de vibraciones

Pero ¿necesitas tener una relación contigo mismo? ¿Por qué no puedes simplemente ser tú mismo? Para tener una relación contigo mismo te divides en dos: «yo» y «mí mismo», sujeto y objeto.

So next time somebody says, "Sorry to have kept you waiting," you can reply, "That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing here enjoying myself — in joy in my self." These are just a few of the habitual

Morra para o passado a cada instante

Show your friend how to be the observing presence behind her thoughts and her emotions. Tell her about the pain-body and how to free herself from it. Teach her the art of inner-body awareness. Demonstrate to her the meaning of presence. As soon as she is able to access the power of the Now, and thereby break through her conditioned past, she will have a choice.

This is why, for so many people, a large part of their sense of self is intimately connected with their problems. Once this has happened, the last thing they want is to become free of them; that would mean loss of self. There can be a great deal of unconscious ego investment in pain and suffering.