Eckhart Tolle
Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.
If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.
That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.
Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.
If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.Collection: Regret
No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now.Collection: Journey
When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.Collection: Freedom
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.Collection: Inspirational
Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.Collection: Believe
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.Collection: Motivational
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.Collection: Hate
You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.Collection: Air
Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.Collection: Stress
When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.Collection: Drama
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.Collection: Success
When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises.Collection: Grateful
Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.Collection: Love You
Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.Collection: Mean
The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.Collection: New Earth
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.Collection: Inspirational
See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.Collection: Spiritual
Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.Collection: Successful
Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.Collection: Thinking
...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.Collection: Two
I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.Collection: Space
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.Collection: Spiritual
You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.Collection: Encouraging
Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as 'my god' or 'our god'.Collection: Spiritual
With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.Collection: Benediction
The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.Collection: Inspirational
I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego came back. It has happened, for example, to some spiritual teachers. At some point in their lives, they began to identify again with form.Collection: Spiritual
If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.Collection: Believe
Many people don't realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.Collection: Fall
You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?"Collection: Meditation
Hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, then you're present. If they say something challenging and you lose it again, pause, and anchor again. Practice, practice, continuous practice-becaus e when you're in touch with the inner body, spaciousness arises.Collection: Practice