Enlightenment Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment

— Eckhart Tolle

“every person carries the seed of enlightenment within,”

— Eckhart Tolle

Don't quote the Buddha. Be the Buddha.

— Eckhart Tolle

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

— Eckhart Tolle

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

— Eckhart Tolle

If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's…

— Eckhart Tolle

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

— Eckhart Tolle

Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.

— Eckhart Tolle

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

— Eckhart Tolle

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

— Eckhart Tolle

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

— Eckhart Tolle

You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his…

— Eckhart Tolle

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason,…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful…

— Eckhart Tolle

The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not…

— Eckhart Tolle

That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially…

— Eckhart Tolle

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it…

— Eckhart Tolle

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no…

— Eckhart Tolle

You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of…

— Eckhart Tolle

When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts,…

— Eckhart Tolle

“For love to flourish, the light of your presence needs to be strong enough so that you no longer get taken over…

— Eckhart Tolle

Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness…

— Eckhart Tolle

Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function.…

— Eckhart Tolle

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you…

— Eckhart Tolle

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it…

— Eckhart Tolle

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain,…

— Eckhart Tolle

Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful…

— Eckhart Tolle

Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In…

— Eckhart Tolle

When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest…

— Eckhart Tolle