To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
ECKHART TOLLELiving up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
More Eckhart Tolle Quotes
-
-
This, too, will pass.
ECKHART TOLLE -
What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
ECKHART TOLLE -
Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem.
ECKHART TOLLE -
If not now, when?
ECKHART TOLLE -
The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
ECKHART TOLLE -
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
ECKHART TOLLE -
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
ECKHART TOLLE -
All problems are illusions of the mind.
ECKHART TOLLE -
The more you are focused on time – past and future – the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
ECKHART TOLLE -
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
ECKHART TOLLE -
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
ECKHART TOLLE -
Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive.
ECKHART TOLLE -
The past has no power over the present moment.
ECKHART TOLLE -
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
ECKHART TOLLE -
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.
ECKHART TOLLE -
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
ECKHART TOLLE -
Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
ECKHART TOLLE -
Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
ECKHART TOLLE -
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
ECKHART TOLLE -
Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
ECKHART TOLLE -
If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
ECKHART TOLLE -
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
ECKHART TOLLE -
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
ECKHART TOLLE -
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
ECKHART TOLLE -
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
ECKHART TOLLE -
Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
ECKHART TOLLE