Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“And it is from inner space, the unconditioned consciousness itself, that true happiness, the joy of Being, emanates.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The affluent world is even more deeply identified with form, more lost in content, more trapped in ego.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“It is everywhere, not just in places where people don’t have enough, but even more so where they have more than enough.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“People believe themselves to be dependent on what happens for their happiness. They don’t realize that what happens is the most unstable… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Occasionally people would come to me. I was sitting with a woman one day and she was telling me her story and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche, in a rare moment of deep stillness, wrote, “For happiness, how little suffices for happiness!…the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“the end justifies the means. But the end and the means are one. And if the means did not contribute to human… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend that you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“War is a mind-set, and all action that comes out of such a mind-set will either strengthen the enemy, the perceived evil, or, if… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
