Top 500 Eckhart Tolle Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “If you don’t mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?”

— Eckhart Tolle

302. “The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not ‘this moment.’ Is this not a fact?”

— Eckhart Tolle

303. “Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.”

— Eckhart Tolle

304. “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

305. “If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn’t even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn’t know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.”

— Eckhart Tolle

306. “Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger.”

— Eckhart Tolle

307. “True change happens within not without.”

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308. “The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

309. “Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

310. “You can’t think about presence, and the mind can’t understand it. Understanding presence is being present.”

— Eckhart Tolle

311. “The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don’t realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.”

— Eckhart Tolle

312. “Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.”

— Eckhart Tolle

313. “Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation.”

— Eckhart Tolle

314. “If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.”

— Eckhart Tolle

315. “Surrender comes when you no longer ask, ‘Why is this happening to me?’”

— Eckhart Tolle

316. “If the thought of lack -whether it be money, recognition, or love has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.”

— Eckhart Tolle

317. “You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.”

— Eckhart Tolle

318. “Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity – which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.”

— Eckhart Tolle

319. “Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.”

— Eckhart Tolle

320. “You can’t wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are – which is now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

321. “When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

322. “You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.”

— Eckhart Tolle

323. “The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not a person, but a state of consciousness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

324. “The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.”

— Eckhart Tolle

325. “You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.”

— Eckhart Tolle

326. “An emotion is your body’s reaction to your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

327. “Don’t quote the Buddha. Be the Buddha.”

— Eckhart Tolle

328. “Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.”

— Eckhart Tolle

329. “Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.”

— Eckhart Tolle

330. “What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?”

— Eckhart Tolle

331. “The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

332. “Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that.”

— Eckhart Tolle

333. “Life wants to support you. But first you need to be open to life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

334. “Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.”

— Eckhart Tolle

335. “Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say ‘yes’ to it. Allow it to be.”

— Eckhart Tolle

336. “All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.”

— Eckhart Tolle

337. “A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.”

— Eckhart Tolle

338. “Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.”

— Eckhart Tolle

339. “Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling place inside you.”

— Eckhart Tolle

340. “Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form.”

— Eckhart Tolle

341. “To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

342. “Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.”

— Eckhart Tolle

343. “When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation.”

— Eckhart Tolle

344. “Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.”

— Eckhart Tolle

345. “When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.”

— Eckhart Tolle

346. “There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

347. “Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is – no matter what form it takes – you are still, you are at peace.”

— Eckhart Tolle

348. “If your relationship to the present moment is not right – nothing can ever be right in the future – because when the future comes – it’s the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

349. “Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

350. “Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.”

— Eckhart Tolle