Top 500 Eckhart Tolle Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now.”

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352. “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.”

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

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

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355. “When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.”

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356. “The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.”

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357. “Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.”

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358. “The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.”

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359. “Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.”

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360. “It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.”

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361. “If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.”

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362. “Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.”

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363. “Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.”

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364. “Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.”

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365. “Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.”

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366. “The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer’s limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.”

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367. “To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others “otherness” then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.”

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368. “The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.”

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369. “As you go about your life, don’t give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.”

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370. “In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.”

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371. “You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.”

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372. “To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.”

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373. “Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace.”

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374. “I sometimes say animals are closer to God than humans. They are closer to the source. The humans are more lost in the mind forms. Being is more obscured to the human because of the overlay of ego and mental formation.”

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375. “Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet – because it is the purpose of humanity.”

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376. “The ego doesn’t know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.”

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377. “A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.”

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378. “A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.”

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379. “Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.”

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380. “Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.”

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381. “As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you’re no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.”

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382. “Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.”

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383. “If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.”

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384. “When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.”

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385. “Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.”

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386. “Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

387. “So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.”

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388. “You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.”

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389. “If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’ that ‘I’ cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.”

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390. “You cannot receive what you don’t give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow out, you won’t even know that you have it. This includes abundance.”

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391. “I usually congratulate people when they tell me, “I don’t know who I am anymore”.”

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392. “When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the dream of past and future. Such clarity, such simplicity. No room for problem-making. Just this moment as it is.”

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393. “What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.”

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394. “The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

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395. “In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.”

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396. “Feel the Aliveness within your Body. That anchors You in the Now.”

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397. “Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.”

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398. “If the only teacher you have is your suffering, you will need a substantial dose of it for the ego to dissolve. But if the power of spiritual teaching is already at work, then a minor event can dissolve the ego.”

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399. “Above all, know that ego isn’t personal. It isn’t who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that’s just more ego.”

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400. “You don’t need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don’t forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.”

— Eckhart Tolle