The Best Eckhart Tolle Quotes About Now & Being

Quiet spoken, with an amiable smile and an elfin like quality, Eckhart Tolle is the author of international bestsellers “The Power of Now” and “A New Earth”, and one of the most popular spiritual teachers in the world. This collection of the best Eckhart Tolle quotes will help you focus on the present moment.

Born Ulrich Leonard Tolle in 1948, in Germany, Eckhart Tolle studied languages and history at the University of London and Latin American literature at the University of Cambridge. Following long periods of depression Tolle experienced a pivotal awakening, an epiphany that triggered his inner transformation and completely changed his life.

According to Tolle’s core philosophy there is One Consciousness, which is Being, that permeates every living form, and this is God. Since everything is One, we are all connected and in essence we are all God. The fundamental problem is that our ego-based state of consciousness makes us identify with our thoughts and separates us from experiencing our true nature. Realizing that our thoughts are a mere product of the way our mind operates we can transcend the illusion of our egoic consciousness and awaken to the new reality and joy of Being.

Tolle’s theories are deeply rooted in Hinduism, Buddhism and Sufism, but are viewed by Christian communities and secular critics as a fusion of Eastern philosophies and New Age narrative that misquotes the Bible in order to assert a misleading teaching. However, despite all the criticism, Tolle’s narrative has helped millions of people reconnect with life and become happier. After all, at the end of the day, isn’t that what we all want? To be happier human beings!

Being present in the now is all we have, so here we have collected for you the most inspirational quotes of Eckhart Tolle to share with friends and loved ones to bring them comforting wisdom, but also to reflect upon and open your mind to a new spiritual dimension for a better life!

Table of Contents

1. Powerful Eckhart Tolle Quotes To Fuel Change
2. Inspirational Eckhart Tolle Quotes For Spiritual Awakening
3. Eckhart Tolle Relationship and Love Quotes
4. Deep Eckhart Tolle Quotes To Inspire Self-Love and Enlightenment
5. Insightful Eckhart Tolle Life Quotes

Powerful Eckhart Tolle Quotes To Fuel Change

A collection of insightful and thought provoking quotes that will ignite the changes necessary to stop you from dwelling in the illusion of the self, helping you awaken to a new awareness that will reconnect you with your true nature.

• Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose. Eckhart Tolle
• The past has no power over the present moment. Eckhart Tolle
• It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living. Eckhart Tolle
• Being must be felt. It can’t be thought. Eckhart Tolle
• 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
• Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. Eckhart Tolle
• So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Eckhart Tolle
• Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. Eckhart Tolle
• Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. Eckhart Tolle
• Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now. Eckhart Tolle
• Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is. Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
• 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
• Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free. Eckhart Tolle
• Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Eckhart Tolle
• Become conscious of being conscious. Eckhart Tolle
• Awareness is the greatest agent for change. Eckhart Tolle
• The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life. Eckhart Tolle
• You are the universe expressing itself as a human for a little while. 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. 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 of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
• If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future. Eckhart Tolle
• You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle. Eckhart Tolle

Inspirational Eckhart Tolle Quotes For Spiritual Awakening

The more you identify with your thoughts, the more you feed the ego and remain disconnected from reality. By realizing that the ego is not the real you but a fake construct of your thoughts, you can lift the veil of illusion and awaken to a reality of true joy.  

• I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats. Eckhart Tolle
• Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
• You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now. Eckhart Tolle
• 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
• 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
• The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Eckhart Tolle
• Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Eckhart Tolle
• Life is the dancer and you are the dance. Eckhart Tolle
• If not now, when? Eckhart Tolle
• If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without. Eckhart Tolle
• All problems are illusions of the mind. Eckhart Tolle
• Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out? Eckhart Tolle
• To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence. Eckhart Tolle
• Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don’t realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie. Eckhart Tolle
• The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything. Eckhart Tolle
• On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do. Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle Relationship and Love Quotes

According to Tolle, love and relationships with people is something esoteric and has to do with identifying the pure essence of the same One consciousness as you into others, or in other words seeing yourself in everyone.

• Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you. Eckhart Tolle
• For what you do to others, you do to yourself. Eckhart Tolle
• Where there is anger there is always pain underneath. Eckhart Tolle
• 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
• Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role. Eckhart Tolle
• To love is to recognize yourself in another. Eckhart Tolle
• The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace. 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

Deep Eckhart Tolle Quotes To Inspire Self-Love and Enlightenment

Thoughts become real only when you act upon them or attach emotions to them. Learning to simply observe your thoughts will open the path to self-love without judgement and a deeper understanding of your true essence.

• You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level. Eckhart Tolle
• Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind. 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
• All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. Eckhart Tolle
• Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are. Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
• You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are. Eckhart Tolle
• Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe. Eckhart Tolle
• Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world. 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
• Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment. Eckhart Tolle
• 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
• Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence. Eckhart Tolle

Insightful Eckhart Tolle Life Quotes

All that matters is to be present and in perfect alignment with the Now, the present moment. All life is happening in this moment and all that exists is in this moment. Accept it for what it is.  

• Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be. 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
• Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life. Eckhart Tolle
• Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on. Eckhart Tolle
• The secret of life is to “die before you die” — and find that there is no death. Eckhart Tolle
• The human condition: lost in thought. Eckhart Tolle
• Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living. Eckhart Tolle
• All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind. Eckhart Tolle
• Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now. 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
• 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
• 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

By examining the essential understanding of traditional religions and various spiritual traditions, Eckhart Tolle synthesized a contemporary, arcane-free teaching that is compatible with all spiritual paths. Accessible and easy to understand, his philosophy resonates with millions of people, helping them experience a better life. Although Tolle may not be the way to get closer to God, he nevertheless provides a way for people to awaken to a life full of purpose and meaning!

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