Eckhart Tolle

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.

Eckhart Tolle

Paradoxically, what keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn’t work: The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.

Eckhart Tolle

Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

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

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Eckhart Tolle

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Eckhart Tolle

Perceiving presence is what true awakening is all about.

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

Presence removes time. Without time, no suffering, no negativity, can survive.

Eckhart Tolle