Eckhart Tolle

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Eckhart Tolle

For a relationship to deepen, at some point the spiritual dimension needs to come in. You don’t even need to be fully awakened for this to happen, but if it does happen it certainly means you are awakening.

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. Instead of asking ‘what do I want from life?,’ a more powerful question is, ‘what does life want from me?’

Eckhart Tolle

Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.

Eckhart Tolle

Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment – allow it to be as it is – then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.

Eckhart Tolle

Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate.

Eckhart Tolle

Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.

Eckhart Tolle

Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it’s usually lodged, in the thinking mind.

Eckhart Tolle

Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

Eckhart Tolle

Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.

Eckhart Tolle