Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
ECKHART TOLLEDon’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
More Eckhart Tolle Quotes
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If not now, when?
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Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.
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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
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Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
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Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
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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.
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All problems are illusions of the mind.
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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.
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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
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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.
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Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” and find that there is no death.
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If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
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The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
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The more you are focused on time – past and future – the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
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Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.
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Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
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Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
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