Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. Eckhart Tolle More Quotes by Eckhart Tolle More Quotes From Eckhart Tolle To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. Eckhart Tolle egoimportantpast Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven. Eckhart Tolle masterybalancelife-is When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form. Eckhart Tolle meditationselfnames Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life. Eckhart Tolle godinspirationallife The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that's what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what is it that is required now so that life can express itself more fully? Eckhart Tolle negativitymomentsacceptance Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes. Eckhart Tolle resistancetransitionacceptance Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home—because you are home. Eckhart Tolle momentshomefeels The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness... seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature. Eckhart Tolle eventsflowerfirsts I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there. Eckhart Tolle corecasesknows The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. Eckhart Tolle egospiritualwant Quality requires your Presence. Eckhart Tolle deep-thoughtqualityhumor You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be a failure. Eckhart Tolle painspiritualloss Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I". Eckhart Tolle inspirationallifethinking Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace? Eckhart Tolle characterdramawar "I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness. Eckhart Tolle attachmentinspirationallife When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key. Eckhart Tolle keysdesirepast You take a journey into the Unmanifested every night when you enter the phase of deep dreamless sleep. You merge with the Source. You draw from it the vital energy that sustains you for a while when you return to the manifested, the world of separate forms. Eckhart Tolle journeysleepnight Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being. It is an essential part of the inner state of peace, the state that has been called the peace of God. It is your natural state, not something that you need to work hard for or struggle to attain. Eckhart Tolle hard-workstrugglejoy True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things. Eckhart Tolle true-happinesssimplefound To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form. Eckhart Tolle illusionformlove-is
