Top 500 Eckhart Tolle Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “When you live as a friend of the now, many changes come into your life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

452. “The teacher and the taught together create the teaching.”

— Eckhart Tolle

453. “We can’t escape from the world anymore; we can’t escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

454. “But there’s a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

455. “I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he’s a precursor.”

— Eckhart Tolle

456. “The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...”

— Eckhart Tolle

457. “The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.”

— Eckhart Tolle

458. “The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.”

— Eckhart Tolle

459. “The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.”

— Eckhart Tolle

460. “Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.”

— Eckhart Tolle

461. “Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

462. “And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.”

— Eckhart Tolle

463. “Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.”

— Eckhart Tolle

464. “If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too.”

— Eckhart Tolle

465. “God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.”

— Eckhart Tolle

466. “Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‘I know.’ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.”

— Eckhart Tolle

467. “For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don’t even need to be fully awakened for this to happen, but if it does happen it certainly means you are awakening.”

— Eckhart Tolle

468. “When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

469. “To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.”

— Eckhart Tolle

470. “If you walk into a forest – you hear all kinds of subtle sounds – but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

471. “I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. ‘You drink alcohol?!’ Well, if my state of consciousness is so fragile that a glass of wine would upset it, then it can’t be worth very much.”

— Eckhart Tolle

472. “Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

473. “When the pain that the little me creates for itself becomes intense enough, the ego will self-destruct. It has a self-destruct mechanism built in, fortunately, so eventually every ego dies.”

— Eckhart Tolle

474. “There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain – this is what I want to talk about now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

475. “Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

476. “The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

477. “We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know – we have forgotten how to be – to be still – to be ourselves – to be where life is here and now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

478. “Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time.”

— Eckhart Tolle

479. “Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

480. “To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wonderous dream arises.”

— Eckhart Tolle

481. “Feel the Aliveness within your Body. That anchors You in the Now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

482. “The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future – which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

483. “When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.”

— Eckhart Tolle

484. “The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can be a conscious choice. Who is making that choice? You are. And who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

485. “Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.”

— Eckhart Tolle

486. “When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit – the formless – shines through you into the world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

487. “At the height of creative activity fueled by enthusiasm, there will be enormous intensity and energy behind what you do. You will feel like an arrow that is moving toward the target-and enjoying the journey.”

— Eckhart Tolle

488. “You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.”

— Eckhart Tolle

489. “The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity.”

— Eckhart Tolle

490. “Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek to become free or desire or “achieve” enlightenment. Become present.”

— Eckhart Tolle

491. “If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.”

— Eckhart Tolle

492. “Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering – Now. It is true that most teachers have had to go through the “Dark Night of the Soul,” although for one or two it was very, very quick.”

— Eckhart Tolle

493. “To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.”

— Eckhart Tolle

494. “You have so much to learn from your enemies.”

— Eckhart Tolle

495. “The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.”

— Eckhart Tolle

496. “A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.”

— Eckhart Tolle

497. “Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.”

— Eckhart Tolle

498. “A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it’s wonderful to see.”

— Eckhart Tolle

499. “I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force.”

— Eckhart Tolle

500. “Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.”

— Eckhart Tolle