Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be. Eckhart Tolle More Quotes by Eckhart Tolle More Quotes From Eckhart Tolle Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left? Eckhart Tolle think-of-you past thinking The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, Eckhart Tolle acceptance spiritual thinking True Power is within, and it is available now. Eckhart Tolle true-power awareness spiritual Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender. Eckhart Tolle forgiving miracle spiritual 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 positive inspirational life You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation. Eckhart Tolle change inspirational life When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be present in this moment because you're no longer looking to the next one. Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment. Eckhart Tolle secret expectations people Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought. Eckhart Tolle soul spiritual dream The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not a person, but a state of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle consciousness states names Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be. Eckhart Tolle loving-life hard-times inspirational So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it. Eckhart Tolle journey mean children When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will. Eckhart Tolle eye spiritual love 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 reactions ego way Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Eckhart Tolle yoga life fall The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself. Eckhart Tolle patterns particular identity You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level. Eckhart Tolle wisdom peace life 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 ego self spiritual Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have. Eckhart Tolle self people thinking It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living. Eckhart Tolle spiritual waiting people An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now. Eckhart Tolle space challenges attention
