45 Empowering Eckhart Tolle Quotes to Inspire You to stay Focused
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Are you distracted by your monkey mind?
Is an overactive mind hampering your writing progress?
Don’t let writer's block stop you from accomplishing your writing goals.
Eckhart Tolle is an amazing spiritual teacher and author. Allow his wisdom to inspire you and be your mentor through his many enlightening books and videos.
Eckhart Tolle’s tranquil voice in his audio recordings will help you stay focused on the present moment and let go of the ego that is holding you back from your writing goals.
After allowing Eckhart’s teaching to awaken your wisdom, your life will never be the same. 45 Amazing Quotes from Eckhart Tolle to change your life.
1: “There is no substitute for finding true purpose. But the true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level. It does not concern what you do but what you are, that is to say, your state of consciousness.”
~Eckhart Tolle
2: “Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining, fear, aggression, or anger. This is important because whenever you complain about what somebody else does, you’re already beginning to fall into that trap of unconsciousness.”
~Eckhart Tolle
3: “The future is an imagined now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now.”
~Eckhart Tolle
4: “Everything, a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being, is ultimately unknowable. This is because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg.”
~Eckhart Tolle
5: “The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.”
~Eckhart Tolle
6: “Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting, snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That’s all right, I wasn’t waiting. I was just standing”
~Eckhart Tolle
7: “You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.” 16: “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.” 25: “The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life’s challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into an even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.”
~Eckhart Tolle
8: “If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.”
~Eckhart Tolle
9: “Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well-being and inner peace, the source of true happiness.”
~Eckhart Tolle
10: “If you were far out in space, you would see that the sun neither rises nor sets, but that it shines continuously. And yet, even after realizing that, we can continue to speak of the sunrise or sunset, still see its beauty, paint it, write poems about it, even though we now know that it is a relative rather than an absolute truth.”
~Eckhart Tolle
11: “Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.”
~Eckhart Tolle
12: “As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people’s thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.”
~Eckhart Tolle
13: “Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.”
~Eckhart Tolle
14: “The story of the Zen Master whose only response was always “Is that so?” shows the good that comes through inner nonresistance to events, that is to say, being at one with what happens.
The story of the man whose comment was invariably a laconic “Maybe” illustrates the wisdom of non-judgment, and the story of the ring points to the fact of impermanence which, when recognized, leads to nonattachment. Nonresistance, non-judgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.”
~Eckhart Tolle
15: “You are not the ego, so when you become aware of the ego in you, it does not mean you know who you are - it means you know who you are not. But it is through knowing who you are not that the greatest obstacle to truly knowing yourself is removed.”
~Eckhart Tolle
~Eckhart Tolle
17: “The reason why you don’t put your hand in the fire is not because of fear, it’s because you know that you’ll get burned. You don’t need fear avoiding unnecessary danger, you just need a minimum of intelligence and common sense.”
~Eckhart Tolle
18: “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. A depth returns to your life.”
~Eckhart Tolle
19: “Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
~Eckhart Tolle
20: “Since you cannot be unhappy without an unhappy story, this was the end of her unhappiness. It was also the beginning of the end of her pain-body. Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness.”
~Eckhart Tolle
21: “The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.”
~Eckhart Tolle
22: “Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not “fit in” with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.”
~Eckhart Tolle
23: “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
24: “The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.”
~Eckhart Tolle
~Eckhart Tolle
26: “Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet. As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution.”
~Eckhart Tolle
27: “How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else. Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you.”
~Eckhart Tolle
28: “Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past can’t prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”
~Eckhart Tolle
29: “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
~Eckhart Tolle
30: “You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!”
~Eckhart Tolle
31: “The pain-body is there because of certain things that happened in the past. It is the living past in you, and if you identify with it, you identify with the past.”
~Eckhart Tolle
32: “Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”
~Eckhart Tolle
33: “If you are in a state of intense presence, you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you’re back in time.”
~Eckhart Tolle
34: “You have it already. You just can’t feel it because your mind is making too much noise.”
~Eckhart Tolle
35: “To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions. Life is Now.”
~Eckhart Tolle
36: “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
37: “How” is always more important than “what.” See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.”
~Eckhart Tolle
38: “To an onlooker, it may appear that you are under stress, but the intensity of enthusiasm has nothing to do with stress. When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.”
~Eckhart Tolle
39: “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
40: “The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.”
~Eckhart Tolle
41: “The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.”
~Eckhart Tolle
42: “When there is stress, it is usually a sign that the ego has returned, and you are cutting yourself off from the creative power of the universe.”
~Eckhart Tolle
43: “The miracle is that when you are no longer placing an impossible demand on it, every situation, person, place, or event becomes not only satisfying but also more harmonious, more peaceful.”
~Eckhart Tolle
44: “If the history of humanity were the clinical case of a single human being, the diagnosis would have to be: ... clinically insane with a few brief lucid intervals.”
~Eckhart Tolle
45: “For most things in life, you need time to learn a new skill, build a house, become an expert, make a cup of tea. Time is useless, however, for the most essential thing in life, the one thing that really matters: self-realization, which means knowing who you are beyond the surface self, beyond your name, your physical form, your history, your story.
You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.
Spiritual seekers look for self-realization or enlightenment in the future. To be a seeker implies you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you, you will need time until you realize you don’t need time to be who you are.”
~Eckhart Tolle
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