A German by birth, Eckhart Tolle was just an average person until he turned 29. A spiritual transformation at that age changed his outlook toward life in general. Now Eckhart is a spiritual counselor who shows people the right path towards leading an everyday life.
Eckhart Tolle’s life is an inspiration for people struck by the daily hurdles of life. We compiled a list of best Eckhart Tolle quotes for our readers to learn a thing or two.
Eckhart’s books are a total class apart, and he counsels people so that they can find the true meaning of their life. After reading Eckhart Tolle’s quotes on life, you will be able to change your mindset completely.
Read these inspirational quotes Eckhart Tolle and figure out how you want your life to shape up. If at any point you are sad and depressed, these quotes will give you the motivation to start afresh. Not only that, you can come closer to God and realize that his existence gives a new dimension to our lives.
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Best Eckhart Tolle Quotes
1. If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too.-Eckhart Tolle
2. 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
3. A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking.-Eckhart Tolle
4. 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
5. Real love doesn’t make you suffer. How could it? It doesn’t suddenly turn into hate, nor does real joy turn into pain.-Eckhart Tolle
6. The longing for love that is in every child is the longing to be recognized, not on the level of form, but on the level of Being.-Eckhart Tolle
7. Love and do what you will.-Eckhart Tolle
8. Love as a continuous state is as yet very rare – as rare as conscious human beings. Brief and elusive glimpses of love, however, are possible whenever there is a gap in the stream of mind.-Eckhart Tolle
9. You cannot love your partner one moment and attack him or her the next. True love has no opposite.-Eckhart Tolle
10. People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.-Eckhart Tolle
11. It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.-Eckhart Tolle
12. Be true to life by being true to your inner purpose. As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.-Eckhart Tolle
13. The secret of life is to ‘die before you die’ — and find that there is no death.-Eckhart Tolle
14. The past has no power over the present moment.-Eckhart Tolle
15. All the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace — arise from beyond the mind.-Eckhart Tolle
16. Love and joy are inseparable from your natural state of inner connectedness with Being. Glimpses of love and joy or brief moments of deep peace are possible whenever a gap occurs in the stream of thought.-Eckhart Tolle
17. Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.-Eckhart Tolle
18. Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.-Eckhart Tolle
19. True communication is communion — the realization of oneness, which is love.-Eckhart Tolle
20. To love is to recognize yourself in another.-Eckhart Tolle
21. Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the ‘love’ of ego.-Eckhart Tolle
22. All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.-Eckhart Tolle
23. All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.-Eckhart Tolle
24. 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
25. Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.-Eckhart Tolle
26. If there isn’t an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.-Eckhart Tolle
27. Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.-Eckhart Tolle
28. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.-Eckhart Tolle
29. Let me say it again: the present moment is all you ever have.-Eckhart Tolle
30. Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.-Eckhart Tolle
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31. Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.-Eckhart Tolle
32. Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.-Eckhart Tolle
33. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.-Eckhart Tolle
34. A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life’s Purpose, ‘Eckhart Tolle’.-Eckhart Tolle
35. Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.-Eckhart Tolle
36. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.-Eckhart Tolle
37. Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.-Eckhart Tolle
38. In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.-Eckhart Tolle
39. What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.-Eckhart Tolle
40. The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.-Eckhart Tolle
41. The secret of life is to die before you die — and find that there is no death.-Eckhart Tolle
42. If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me.-Eckhart Tolle
43. Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real.-Eckhart Tolle
44. Instead of asking ‘what do I want from life?’ A more powerful question is, ‘what does life want from me?’-Eckhart Tolle
45. For what you do to others, you do to yourself.-Eckhart Tolle
46. Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.-Eckhart Tolle
47. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.-Eckhart Tolle
48. You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.-Eckhart Tolle
49. Become conscious of being conscious.-Eckhart Tolle
50. Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.-Eckhart Tolle
51. What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.-Eckhart Tolle
52. Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.-Eckhart Tolle
53. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.-Eckhart Tolle
54. 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
55. It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.-Eckhart Tolle
56. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.-Eckhart Tolle
57. Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.-Eckhart Tolle
58. The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.-Eckhart Tolle
59. Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.-Eckhart Tolle
60. To love is to recognize yourself in another-Eckhart Tolle
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61. Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.-Eckhart Tolle
62. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.-Eckhart Tolle
63. So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.-Eckhart Tolle
64. What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.-Eckhart Tolle
65. You are not the voice in your mind, but the one who is aware of it.-Eckhart Tolle
66. To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for your inner state at any given moment. That means now.-Eckhart Tolle
67. Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.-Eckhart Tolle
68. Life is the dancer and you are the dance.-Eckhart Tolle
69. Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.-Eckhart Tolle
70. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.-Eckhart Tolle
71. Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.-Eckhart Tolle
72. How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.-Eckhart Tolle
73. Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.-Eckhart Tolle
74. Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.-Eckhart Tolle
75. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.-Eckhart Tolle
76. Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.-Eckhart Tolle
77. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.-Eckhart Tolle
78. 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
79. What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who sees that.-Eckhart Tolle
80. Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.-Eckhart Tolle
81. If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.-Eckhart Tolle
82. Always say ‘yes’ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‘yes’ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.-Eckhart Tolle
83. Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.-Eckhart Tolle
84. Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.-Eckhart Tolle
85. Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.-Eckhart Tolle
86. I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.-Eckhart Tolle
87. Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to ‘die before you die’ — and find that there is no death.-Eckhart Tolle
88. Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.-Eckhart Tolle
89. Love is a state of being. Your love is not outside, it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.-Eckhart Tolle
90. This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.-Eckhart Tolle