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Quotes from Eckhart Tolle

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.
~ Eckhart Tolle
True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.
~ Eckhart Tolle
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.
~ Eckhart Tolle
True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.
~ Eckhart Tolle
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.
~ Eckhart Tolle
When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.
~ Eckhart Tolle