Top 500 Eckhart Tolle Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” – and find that there is no death.”

— Eckhart Tolle

52. “You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.”

— Eckhart Tolle

53. “When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it’s just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

54. “Facing facts is always empowering.”

— Eckhart Tolle

55. “So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.”

— Eckhart Tolle

56. “Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

57. “Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?”

— Eckhart Tolle

58. “To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

59. “You are not a problem that needs solving.”

— Eckhart Tolle

60. “Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.”

— Eckhart Tolle

61. “Observe your thoughts, don’t believe them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

62. “For the ego to survive, it must make time – past and future – more important than the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

63. “Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

64. “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

65. “On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.”

— Eckhart Tolle

66. “Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.”

— Eckhart Tolle

67. “If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.”

— Eckhart Tolle

68. “If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.”

— Eckhart Tolle

69. “Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.”

— Eckhart Tolle

70. “Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the Dance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

71. “Through being “right”, you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.”

— Eckhart Tolle

72. “The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.”

— Eckhart Tolle

73. “True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.”

— Eckhart Tolle

74. “Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

75. “Presence is a state of inner spaciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

76. “The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.”

— Eckhart Tolle

77. “Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

78. “Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don’t realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

79. “Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

80. “We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.”

— Eckhart Tolle

81. “As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.”

— Eckhart Tolle

82. “The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn’t. And while your happy moments may be rare, your dog celebrates life continuously.”

— Eckhart Tolle

83. “Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body’s reaction to your mind – or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.”

— Eckhart Tolle

84. “So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

85. “The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you’re trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

86. “When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.”

— Eckhart Tolle

87. “Every being is a spark of the Divine, or God. Look into the eyes of the dog and sense that innermost core. When you are present, you can sense the spirit, the one consciousness, in every creature and love it as yourself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

88. “If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you’re back in time.”

— Eckhart Tolle

89. “The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.”

— Eckhart Tolle

90. “Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.”

— Eckhart Tolle

91. “When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

92. “It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.”

— Eckhart Tolle

93. “For many people, illness – loss of health – represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.”

— Eckhart Tolle

94. “Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

95. “A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.”

— Eckhart Tolle

96. “Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the other human being that arises. You enjoy it. There is deep joy in the meeting.”

— Eckhart Tolle

97. “Failure lies concealed in every success and in every failure.”

— Eckhart Tolle

98. “Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

99. “One conscious breath in and out is a meditation.”

— Eckhart Tolle

100. “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 joy is to benobody, to relinquish the function of a teacher. It’s a temporary function.”

— Eckhart Tolle