Top 500 Eckhart Tolle Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

353. “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

354. “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

355. “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

356. “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

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

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

359. “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

360. “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

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

— Eckhart Tolle

362. “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

363. “Feel the aliveness within your body. That anchors you in the now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

364. “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.”

— Eckhart Tolle

365. “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.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

367. “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

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

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

370. “Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

373. “Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

375. “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.”

— Eckhart Tolle

376. “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

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

— Eckhart Tolle

378. “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.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

383. “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.”

— Eckhart Tolle

384. “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.”

— Eckhart Tolle

385. “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.”

— Eckhart Tolle

386. “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.”

— Eckhart Tolle

387. “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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388. “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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389. “Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.”

— Eckhart Tolle

390. “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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391. “The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster.”

— Eckhart Tolle

392. “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.”

— Eckhart Tolle

393. “Each person’s life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.”

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394. “Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.”

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395. “The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

396. “The most important healing – realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it’s not the essence of healing.”

— Eckhart Tolle

397. “The ‘soul’ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.”

— Eckhart Tolle

398. “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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399. “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.”

— Eckhart Tolle

400. “How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.”

— Eckhart Tolle