If you’re looking for a way to change your perspective on life, look no further than Eckhart Tolle. This spiritual teacher has helped millions of people learn how to live in the present moment and find true peace and happiness. In this blog post, we will share 85 of his most insightful quotes that will change the way you see the world!
Eckhart Tolle Quotes
- “This, too, will pass.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Love and do what you will.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Nothing that comes and goes is you.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Become conscious of being conscious.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “To love is to recognize yourself in another.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “The past has no power over the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “For what you do to others, you do to yourself.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Let me say it again: the present moment is all you ever have.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “True communication is communion — the realization of oneness, which is love.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “The secret of life is to ‘die before you die’ — and find that there is no death.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just havent realized it yet.”” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation of abundance.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “You cannot love your partner one moment and attack him or her the next. True love has no opposite.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no mind, from inner stillness.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make now the primary focus of your life.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Instead of asking ‘what do I want from life?’ A more powerful question is, ‘what does life want from me?’” – Eckhart Tolle
- “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
- “All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “All the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace — arise from beyond the mind.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “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
- “Any action is often better than no action. Especially, if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “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
- “The power of creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating good present.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “If there isnt an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.”” – Eckhart Tolle
- “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
- “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
- “Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serves as a foundation for a good future. No matter how much effort you make.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: You are the goal. You are the answer. It’s never outside.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “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
- “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
- “Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live it.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “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
- “Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn’t even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn’t know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “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
- “The entire phenomenal universe exists because of the tension between the opposites. Hot and cold, growth and decay, gain and loss, success and failure, the polarities that are part of existence, and of course part of every relationship.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “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
- “Happiness the most important aspect of being alive. Without happiness a person tends to be dead even when he is alive. People spend their entire life in search of happiness. Here are a few Eckhart Tolle quotes to help you find your happiness.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “What is commonly called ‘falling in love’ is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “The object of love is interchangeable, as interchangeable as the object of egoic wanting. Some people go through many relationships. They fall in love and out of love many times. They love a person for a while until it doesn’t work anymore, because no person can permanently cover up that pain.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.” – Eckhart Tolle
Wrapping Up
Eckhart Tolle’s words of wisdom can help us to find inner peace and happiness, learn to love ourselves and others more deeply, and ultimately live a life of joy and meaning. No matter what challenges or struggles we face, we can always remember that the present moment is where true liberation lies. By embracing his teachings, we can find greater freedom, clarity, and peace in our lives.
