Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.

Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.

When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same as when major things seem to go wrong in your life and there is upset.

In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.

When you are aligned with the now internally, when you take responsibility for this moment, then life is helpful and tends to bring you what you need.

We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.

Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.

Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.

To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are.

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.