Top 500 Eckhart Tolle Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.”

— Eckhart Tolle

152. “If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.”

— Eckhart Tolle

153. “We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating – lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.”

— Eckhart Tolle

154. “Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.”

— Eckhart Tolle

155. “If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.”

— Eckhart Tolle

156. “The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It’s never outside.”

— Eckhart Tolle

157. “Leave life alone. Let it be.”

— Eckhart Tolle

158. “The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

160. “All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that’s the ego in you.”

— Eckhart Tolle

161. “To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

162. “Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.”

— Eckhart Tolle

163. “It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.”

— Eckhart Tolle

164. “Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond. If you fight it, you’re stuck with it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

165. “You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

166. “Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.”

— Eckhart Tolle

167. “Don’t wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.”

— Eckhart Tolle

168. “Ego means self-identification with thinking, to be trapped in thought, which means to have a mental image of “me” based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

169. “The world can only change from within.”

— Eckhart Tolle

170. “That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.”

— Eckhart Tolle

171. “Allow nature to teach you stillness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

172. “Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.”

— Eckhart Tolle

173. “Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can’t argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.”

— Eckhart Tolle

174. “Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn’t.”

— Eckhart Tolle

175. “It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so – your resistance is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

176. “How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.”

— Eckhart Tolle

177. “The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.”

— Eckhart Tolle

178. “You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe.”

— Eckhart Tolle

179. “Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.”

— Eckhart Tolle

180. “If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.”

— Eckhart Tolle

181. “The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

182. “You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.”

— Eckhart Tolle

183. “People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

184. “Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. It also strengthens the immune system and the body’s ability to heal itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle

185. “If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.”

— Eckhart Tolle

186. “Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.”

— Eckhart Tolle

187. “Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don’t try to understand or explain.”

— Eckhart Tolle

188. “Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.”

— Eckhart Tolle

189. “Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.”

— Eckhart Tolle

190. “Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”

— Eckhart Tolle

191. “When there is spiritual awakening, you awaken into the fullness, the aliveness, and also the sacredness of now. You were absent, asleep, and now you are present, awake.”

— Eckhart Tolle

192. “Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

194. “Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time – past and future – the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

195. “Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.”

— Eckhart Tolle

196. “Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.”

— Eckhart Tolle

197. “Non- reaction is not weakness, But Strength!”

— Eckhart Tolle

198. “Die to the past every moment. You don’t need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

199. “Accept the present moment without judgement.”

— Eckhart Tolle

200. “When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.”

— Eckhart Tolle