Spiritual Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

You have so much to learn from your enemies.

— Eckhart Tolle

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

— Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

— Eckhart Tolle

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.

— Eckhart Tolle

Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.

— Eckhart Tolle

True salvation is freedom from negativity.

— Eckhart Tolle

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

— Eckhart Tolle

Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.

— Eckhart Tolle

...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.

— Eckhart Tolle

Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.

— Eckhart Tolle

Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.

— Eckhart Tolle

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in…

— Eckhart Tolle

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

— Eckhart Tolle

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

— Eckhart Tolle

Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

— Eckhart Tolle

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

— Eckhart Tolle

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved…

— Eckhart Tolle

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack…

— Eckhart Tolle

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is…

— Eckhart Tolle

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from…

— Eckhart Tolle

Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in…

— 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

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

— Eckhart Tolle

When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is…

— Eckhart Tolle

The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to…

— Eckhart Tolle

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher…

— Eckhart Tolle

Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from…

— Eckhart Tolle

If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his…

— Eckhart Tolle

True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel…

— Eckhart Tolle

A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to…

— Eckhart Tolle

The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability…

— Eckhart Tolle

Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its…

— Eckhart Tolle

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

— Eckhart Tolle

What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.

— Eckhart Tolle

The human condition: lost in thought.

— Eckhart Tolle

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.

— Eckhart Tolle

True Power is within, and it is available now.

— Eckhart Tolle

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

— Eckhart Tolle

Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.

— Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

— Eckhart Tolle