Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Si el futuro imaginario es mejor, te da esperanza o expectativas placenteras. Si es peor, crea ansiedad. Ambas son ilusorias.

Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.

Watch out for thoughts that appear to justify or explain this unhappiness but in reality cause it.

The body loves your attention. It is also a potent form of self-healing. Most illnesses creep in when you are not present in the body. If the master is not present in the house, all kinds of shady characters will take up residence there.

Vuélvase intensamente con-sciente del momento presente. Esto es algo profundamente satisfactorio. De esa forma usted aparta la conciencia de la actividad de su mente y crea una brecha de no-mente en la que usted está muy alerta y consciente, pero no pensando. Esa es la esencia de la meditación.

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Cuando tu conciencia se dirige hacia fuera, surgen la mente y el mundo. Cuando se dirige hacia dentro, alcanza su propia Fuente y regresa a casa, a lo No Manifestado.

The accumulation of time in the collective and individual human mind also holds a vast amount of residual pain from the past.

You may win $10 million, but that kind of change is no more than skin deep. You would simply continue to act out the same conditioned patterns in more luxurious surroundings. Humans have learned to split the atom. Instead of killing ten or twenty people with a wooden club, one person can now kill a million just by pushing a button. Is that real change?

What remains is the light of consciousness in which perceptions, experiences, thoughts, and feelings come and go. That is Being, that is the deeper, true I. When I know myself as that, whatever happens in my life is no longer of absolute but only of relative importance. I honor it, but it loses its absolute seriousness, its heaviness.

Cuando usted aprenda a ser testigo de sus pensamientos y emociones, que es una parte esencial de estar presente, puede quedar sorprendido cuando se dé cuenta por primera vez de la "estática" de fondo de inconsciencia ordinaria que tiene y de qué pocas veces, si acaso alguna, usted está verdaderamente a gusto consigo mismo.

True self is rooted in being

If the thought of lack -- whether it be money, recognition, or love -- has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.

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Can anxious thought add a single day to your life?

Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to the past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation.

Once you can feel what it means to be present, it becomes much easier to simply choose to step out of the time dimension whenever time is not needed for practical purposes and move more deeply into the Now.

Being present is always infinitely more powerful than anything one could say or do, although sometimes being present can give rise to words or actions.

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth.

NO OFRECER RESISTENCIA A LA VIDA es estar en un estado de gracia, tranquilidad y ligereza, un estado que no depende de que las cosas sean de cierta manera, buenas o malas.

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within, secondary reality without.

There is something that needs to happen in my life before I can be at peace (happy, fulfilled, etc.). And I resent that it hasn't happened yet. Maybe my resentment will finally make it happen." "Something happened in the past that should not have happened, and I resent that. If that hadn't happened, I would be at peace now." "Something is happening now that should not be happening, and it is preventing me from being at peace now.

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind — or you might say a reflection of your mind in the body.

The stronger the ego, the more time takes over your life. Almost every thought you think is then concerned with past or future, and your sense of self depends on the past for your identity and on the future for its fulfillment.