Eckhart Tolle Quotes

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  Instead of asking “what do I want from life?” a more powerful question is “what does life want from me?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Powerful, Instead
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  Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Suffering
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  Every thought pretends that it matters so much. It wants to draw your attention in completely. Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t take your thoughts too seriously.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Seriously, Spiritual
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  You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!

  Eckhart Tolle

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  Tags in Important, Universe
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  When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Comfortable, Uncertainty
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  Life will give you whatever experience is the most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Experience, Life

  Tags in Consciousness, Helpful
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  To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Resistance, Certain
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  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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Within, Being
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  I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Forgotten, Spiritual

• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Human, Greater
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  But there’s a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now!

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Consciousness, Happening
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  You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Present, Unhappy
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  You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Life

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Goodness, Finding
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  The world can only change from within.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Change
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  Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Spiritual, Thought
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  Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teach, Stillness
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  Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Awareness, Thoughts
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  The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Topics in Future, Past

  Tags in Salvation, Fulfillment

Eckhart Tolle (43)

Birth:	16th February, 1948
Nationality:	Canadian, German
Profession:	Author, Speaker, Teacher

About

Eckhart Tolle was born in Lünen, Germany. He is a German-born Canadian author, teacher, and motivational speaker, best known as the author of The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to your Life's Purpose. In 2011, he was listed by the Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world. He educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. He has lived in Vancouver, Canada since 1995.

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