When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth. Eckhart Tolle More Quotes by Eckhart Tolle More Quotes From Eckhart Tolle If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment. Eckhart Tolle our-relationshipmomentsmindfulness To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. 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. Eckhart Tolle givingmemoriespast 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 painmindfulnessjoy As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change. Eckhart Tolle infiniteactionmean When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed. Eckhart Tolle stresseddoing-yougoal Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life. Eckhart Tolle alliesmomentsenemy Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying. Eckhart Tolle demandimportantworld You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found that out in your life. And then suddenly when you let go of resistance you let go of an attachment to something: I need this to happen in order to be happy; I don't want what is, I want something else. To be okay with what is, which is the simplicity of this moment, is the beginning of true change. Eckhart Tolle attachmentletting-goorder Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing. Eckhart Tolle giving-upknowingmean If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave. Eckhart Tolle egospiritualpeople Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment. Eckhart Tolle gratitudeappreciationinspirational You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while. Eckhart Tolle soulspiritlittles You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present. Eckhart Tolle inspirationallifepast Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment - the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind. Eckhart Tolle breathingkeysthinking Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. Eckhart Tolle differentmeditationthinking Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary. Eckhart Tolle primariespositivity True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at this moment. This inner alignment with Now is the end of suffering. Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary. Eckhart Tolle humilityreadingspiritual 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 wisdomspirituallove Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death. Eckhart Tolle inspirationallifedeath When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is their mental conditioning, their patterns of behavior and so on. And then, there is a deeper level to every human being that transcends all of that. I can only sense that in another human being and relate to another human being on that deeper level if I have gone deep enough within myself. Eckhart Tolle patternsselfgone
