Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature

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.

I enjoy going to Starbucks, having a cup of coffee, sitting in my car, driving from here to there, sitting at home looking at the trees, going for a walk with a dog. It's all very enjoyable.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Love is a state of being. Your love is not outside, it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it can not leave you.

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.

Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Surrender to what is. Say yes to life - and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.

When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep on asserting that it's okay to be sick?

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.