Top 500 Eckhart Tolle Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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

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

— Eckhart Tolle

403. “Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don’t want to be where you are. Here, Now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

404. “Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.”

— Eckhart Tolle

405. “The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

406. “To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.”

— Eckhart Tolle

407. “Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

410. “It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept – before they will forgive.”

— Eckhart Tolle

411. “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

412. “Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

414. “I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.”

— Eckhart Tolle

415. “Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

416. “Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world.”

— Eckhart Tolle

417. “Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to be a self-serving autonomous activity that takes possession of you and runs your life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

418. “Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.”

— Eckhart Tolle

419. “A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

420. “True salvation is freedom from negativity.”

— Eckhart Tolle

421. “When you live as a friend of the now, many changes come into your life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

422. “It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what’s important and what makes you happy.”

— Eckhart Tolle

423. “You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.”

— Eckhart Tolle

424. “I call animals “guardians of Being,” especially animals that live with humans. Because, for many humans, it’s through their contact with animals they get in touch with that level of being.”

— Eckhart Tolle

425. “We can’t escape from the world anymore; we can’t escape from the mind. We need to enter surrender while we are in the world. That seems to be the path that is effective in the world that we live in now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

426. “You find God the moment you realize that you don’t need to seek God.”

— Eckhart Tolle

427. “People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.”

— Eckhart Tolle

428. “Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That’s the very foundation of your life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

429. “Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.”

— Eckhart Tolle

430. “Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought...”

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431. “All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.”

— Eckhart Tolle

432. “Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.”

— Eckhart Tolle

433. “Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?”

— Eckhart Tolle

434. “A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.”

— Eckhart Tolle

435. “The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.”

— Eckhart Tolle

436. “Once you realize that a certain kind of food makes you sick, would you carry on eating that food and keep on asserting that it’s okay to be sick?”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Eckhart Tolle

438. “Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche.”

— Eckhart Tolle

439. “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

440. “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.”

— Eckhart Tolle

441. “A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain at first. But whenever a form dissolves, which is called “death,” what remains is an opening into emptiness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

442. “Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.”

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443. “You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.”

— Eckhart Tolle

444. “The ego’s form of happiness can’t exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.”

— Eckhart Tolle

445. “Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.”

— Eckhart Tolle

446. “If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too.”

— Eckhart Tolle

447. “God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.”

— Eckhart Tolle

448. “You cannot have a desire to surrender because that’s non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don’t even have a word for it. And I know that openness is there in many people.”

— Eckhart Tolle

449. “A significant portion of the earth’s population will soon recognize, if they haven’t already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.”

— Eckhart Tolle

450. “The ego says, I shouldn’t have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.”

— Eckhart Tolle