The Power of Now Quotes by Eckhart Tolle

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment is written by Eckhart Tolle. This book tells us about living in the present movement and leaving the thought of the past or future. The quotes of this book are as powerful as this book is.  

This book was published in the late 1990s since then many people have recommended this book. Even Oprah Winfrey has also recommended this book. 

• Translated in 33 languages 
• Sold more than 3 million copies 
• Recommended by Oprah Winfrey

20 Best Quotes from The Power of Now

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

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

2. “I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

3. “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

4. “Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

5. “The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

6. “the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

7. “What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

8. “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, The Power of Now

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

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

10. “Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don’t realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

11. “Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

12. “At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

13. “Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

14. “To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it—who are you?”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

15. “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. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

16. “If you find you’re here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

17. “To suddenly see that you are or have been attached to your pain can be quite a shocking realization. The moment you realize this, you have broken the attachment.”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

18. “Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

19. “The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life. The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what “is.”

– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

20. “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, The Power of Now

Wrapping up

These are the best quotes that I handpicked from The Power of now book and I hope that these quotes will help you as well as help me to overcome many demotivation. If you guys liked these quotes then you can check out our quotes category where we have added thousands of quotes according to the book: Click Here to Read.

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.