Eckhart Tolle Quotes

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it.

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

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

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole life like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one.

“I cannot live with myself any longer.” This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. “Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’ that ‘I’ cannot live with.” “Maybe,” I thought, “only one of them is real.”