Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.

Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.

You can be effective in this world without stress.

Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

Stress is a form of suffering.

Even in a moment of stress, you can say, "OK, can I enjoy the doing itself? Can I enjoy the flow of energy of this moment?" And of course you can!

Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

Stress is extremely harmful to the body.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

When Doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of being, that is success

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.