Top 500 Eckhart Tolle Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”

— Eckhart Tolle

102. “Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.”

— Eckhart Tolle

103. “You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.”

— Eckhart Tolle

104. “Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It’s a split that tears you apart inside.”

— Eckhart Tolle

105. “One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it’s measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.”

— Eckhart Tolle

106. “Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice.”

— Eckhart Tolle

107. “Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry.”

— Eckhart Tolle

108. “What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who sees that.”

— Eckhart Tolle

109. “If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.”

— Eckhart Tolle

110. “Complaining is one of the ego’s favorite strategies for strengthening itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

111. “Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.”

— Eckhart Tolle

112. “Life is an adventure. It’s not a package tour.”

— Eckhart Tolle

113. “When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

114. “You get there by realizing you are already there.”

— Eckhart Tolle

115. “Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

116. “Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.”

— Eckhart Tolle

117. “When there’s a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

118. “You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.”

— Eckhart Tolle

119. “Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.”

— Eckhart Tolle

120. “Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.”

— Eckhart Tolle

121. “Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

122. “The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body’s reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.”

— Eckhart Tolle

123. “If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”

— Eckhart Tolle

124. “The only thing you ever have is now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

125. “Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.”

— Eckhart Tolle

126. “One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

127. “Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

128. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

129. “Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

130. “Be present as the watcher of your mind – of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.”

— Eckhart Tolle

131. “Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.”

— Eckhart Tolle

132. “The future never comes. Life is always now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

133. “As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change.”

— Eckhart Tolle

134. “When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

135. “Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

137. “Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.”

— Eckhart Tolle

138. “Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t take your thoughts too seriously.”

— Eckhart Tolle

139. “The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”

— Eckhart Tolle

140. “You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.”

— Eckhart Tolle

141. “If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self mastery tool that keeps realigning me with my higher purpose for living.”

— Eckhart Tolle

142. “Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

143. “The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

144. “Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.”

— Eckhart Tolle

145. “Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

146. “Become intensely conscious of the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

147. “Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.”

— Eckhart Tolle

148. “If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

149. “Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.”

— Eckhart Tolle

150. “You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life.”

— Eckhart Tolle