Top 500 Eckhart Tolle Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.”

— Eckhart Tolle

252. “In any relationship, especially marriage, be as free of compulsive thinking as possible. In other words, the more space there is in the relationship – inner space – the more love there is because love arises out of the inner spaciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

253. “Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It’s good for the body and it’s good for the soul.”

— Eckhart Tolle

254. “If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

255. “The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.”

— Eckhart Tolle

256. “The human condition: lost in thought.”

— Eckhart Tolle

257. “What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.”

— Eckhart Tolle

258. “Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.”

— Eckhart Tolle

259. “The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

260. “God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.”

— Eckhart Tolle

261. “When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested.”

— Eckhart Tolle

262. “Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can then express itself through you. So through surrender often you find circumstances changing.”

— Eckhart Tolle

263. “The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that’s what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what is it that is required now so that life can express itself more fully?”

— Eckhart Tolle

264. “When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.”

— Eckhart Tolle

265. “To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.”

— Eckhart Tolle

266. “Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.”

— Eckhart Tolle

267. “Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?”

— Eckhart Tolle

268. “Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

269. “You are awareness, disguised as a person.”

— Eckhart Tolle

270. “All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.”

— Eckhart Tolle

271. “Man made God in his own image...”

— Eckhart Tolle

272. “Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.”

— Eckhart Tolle

273. “Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.”

— Eckhart Tolle

274. “I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.”

— Eckhart Tolle

275. “Everything is honoured, but nothing matters.”

— Eckhart Tolle

276. “The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.”

— Eckhart Tolle

277. “The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

278. “Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

279. “To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.”

— Eckhart Tolle

280. “Presence is when you’re no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.”

— Eckhart Tolle

281. “Spiritual awakening – is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

282. “The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.”

— Eckhart Tolle

283. “Thinking is compulsive: you can’t stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don’t even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable.”

— Eckhart Tolle

284. “The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

285. “The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it’s your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.”

— Eckhart Tolle

286. “You don’t ‘have’ a life, you ‘are’ life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.”

— Eckhart Tolle

287. “And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don’t realize it, but all they ever have is “this”. This moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

288. “Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don’t demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.”

— Eckhart Tolle

289. “Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment – allow it to be as it is – then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.”

— Eckhart Tolle

290. “When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.”

— Eckhart Tolle

291. “Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.”

— Eckhart Tolle

292. “Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

293. “Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”

— Eckhart Tolle

294. “To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.”

— Eckhart Tolle

295. “Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

296. “The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.”

— Eckhart Tolle

297. “When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.”

— Eckhart Tolle

298. “Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions – what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver.”

— Eckhart Tolle

299. “Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.”

— Eckhart Tolle

300. “The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn’t mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.”

— Eckhart Tolle