Eckhart Tolle
If not now, when?Collection: Procrastination
Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.Collection: About Life
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness.Collection: Complaining
Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.Collection: Suffering
Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.Collection: Mistake
Complaining is one of the ego’s favorite strategies for strengthening itself.Collection: Complaining
For the ego to survive, it must make time – past and future – more important than the present moment.Collection: Important
When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it’s just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.Collection: Body
The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.Collection: Real
Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.Collection: Stories
If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’ that ‘I’ cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.Collection: Real
Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness.Collection: Stories