Inspirational Quotes by Eckhart Tolle · Page 3

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

— Eckhart Tolle

You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.

— Eckhart Tolle

A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it.

— Eckhart Tolle

But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.

— Eckhart Tolle

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

— Eckhart Tolle

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.

— Eckhart Tolle

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner…

— Eckhart Tolle

The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am.…

— Eckhart Tolle

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who…

— Eckhart Tolle

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or…

— Eckhart Tolle

Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And…

— Eckhart Tolle

You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is…

— Eckhart Tolle

Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness…

— Eckhart Tolle

Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes…

— Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

— Eckhart Tolle

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.

— Eckhart Tolle

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

— Eckhart Tolle

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”

— Eckhart Tolle

There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.

— Eckhart Tolle

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

— Eckhart Tolle

The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.

— Eckhart Tolle

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

— Eckhart Tolle

The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.

— Eckhart Tolle

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.

— Eckhart Tolle

The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.

— Eckhart Tolle

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

— Eckhart Tolle

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

— Eckhart Tolle

If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

— Eckhart Tolle

As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

— Eckhart Tolle

Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.

— Eckhart Tolle

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle