Top 500 Eckhart Tolle Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.”

— Eckhart Tolle

452. “You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”

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453. “To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don’t need time to be who you are.”

— Eckhart Tolle

454. “The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.”

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455. “Don’t think of yourself as having a past, don’t think of yourself as having a future. What’s left?”

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456. “Many people don’t realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.”

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457. “The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn’t even recognize it and certainly can’t remember it.”

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458. “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.”

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459. “Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.”

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

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

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

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463. “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.”

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

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465. “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.”

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

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467. “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

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

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469. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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474. “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

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

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

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477. “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.”

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

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479. “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.”

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480. “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

481. “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.”

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482. “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.”

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

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484. “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.”

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485. “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

486. “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.”

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487. “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

488. “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.”

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

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490. “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.”

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491. “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.”

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492. “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.”

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493. “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

494. “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.”

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495. “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

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

— Eckhart Tolle

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

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

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

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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