Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

If you don't have a good relationship with the now, you don't have a good relationship with life.

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don't have a life. You are life.

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Nothing that comes and goes is you. 'I am bored.' Who knows this? 'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this? You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.