Eckhart Tolle Quotes

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

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.

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

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.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.