Best 70 Eckhart Tolle Quotes

By Sourabh 12/14/2021 Quotes 1 Comment

We have curated a list of the best quotes by Eckhart Tolle. Let’s get a look at quotes.

Eckhart Tolle is a German-born self-help book author and spiritual teacher and he lives in Canada. He has written some of the best-selling books such as The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. His books were included in the New York Times Best Seller List of 2000.

Let’s get into the list of Quotes from Eckhart Tolle.

Best Quotes From Eckhart Tolle

1. “The past has no power over the present moment.”
– Eckhart Tolle

2. “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.”
– Eckhart Tolle

3. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
– Eckhart Tolle

4. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle

5. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.”
– Eckhart Tolle

6. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
– Eckhart Tolle

7. “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
– Eckhart Tolle

8. “To love is to recognize yourself in another.”
– Eckhart Tolle

9. “Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
– Eckhart Tolle

10. “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
– Eckhart Tolle

11. “I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.”
– Eckhart Tolle

12. “Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”
– Eckhart Tolle

13. “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”
– Eckhart Tolle

14. “You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
– Eckhart Tolle

15. “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
– Eckhart Tolle

16. “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

17. “Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.”
– Eckhart Tolle

18. “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 non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”
– Eckhart Tolle

19. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”
– Eckhart Tolle

20. “A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.”
– Eckhart Tolle

21. “Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose”
– Eckhart Tolle

22. “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”
– Eckhart Tolle

23. “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

24. “If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”
– Eckhart Tolle

25. “Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”
– Eckhart Tolle

26. “Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.”
– Eckhart Tolle

27. “Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”
– Eckhart Tolle

28. “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
– Eckhart Tolle

29. “You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.”
– Eckhart Tolle

30. “Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.”
– Eckhart Tolle

31. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”
– Eckhart Tolle

32. “Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”
– Eckhart Tolle

33. “All problems are illusions of the mind.”
– Eckhart Tolle

34. “This, too, will pass.”
– Eckhart Tolle

35. “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”
– Eckhart Tolle

36. “Don’t Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness”
– Eckhart Tolle

37. “All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy, and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.”
– Eckhart Tolle

38. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”
– Eckhart Tolle

39. “This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.”
– Eckhart Tolle

40. “Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.”
– Eckhart Tolle

41. “To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.”
– Eckhart Tolle

42. “Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.”
– Eckhart Tolle

43. “If not now, when?”
– Eckhart Tolle

44. “The moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”
– Eckhart Tolle

45. “What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”
– Eckhart Tolle

46. “Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.”
– Eckhart Tolle

47. “In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much, and forget about the joy of just Being.”
– Eckhart Tolle

48. “What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.”
– Eckhart Tolle

49. “Man made God in his own image…”
– Eckhart Tolle

50. “Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.”
– Eckhart Tolle

51. “Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.”
– Eckhart Tolle

52. “The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.”
– Eckhart Tolle

53. “every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.”
– Eckhart Tolle

54. “Become conscious of being conscious.”
– Eckhart Tolle

55. “Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.”
– Eckhart Tolle

56. “Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.”
– Eckhart Tolle

57. “Die to the past every moment. You don’t need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.”
– Eckhart Tolle

58. “It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.”
– Eckhart Tolle

59. “You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.”
– Eckhart Tolle

60. “You have so much to learn from your enemies.”
– Eckhart Tolle

61. “Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”
– Eckhart Tolle

62. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.”
– Eckhart Tolle

63. “The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.”
– Eckhart Tolle

64. “Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.”
– Eckhart Tolle

65. “Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.”
– Eckhart Tolle

66. “You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.”
– Eckhart Tolle

67. “Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
– Eckhart Tolle

68. “Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.”
– Eckhart Tolle

69. “The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.”
– Eckhart Tolle

70. “Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.”
– Eckhart Tolle

Wrapping up

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Sourabh

Sourabh Sharma is a hobbyist book reader, Entrepreneur, and a literature student at Delhi University. A blog writer by day and a book reader by night, he is oathed to discuss himself in a third person but can be persuaded to do so from time to time.