Eckhart Tolle Meditation Quotes

Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space. ~ Eckhart Tolle

If your mind is still ... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. ~ Eckhart Tolle

The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain. ~ Eckhart Tolle

I have lived with several Zen masters
all of them cats. ~ Eckhart Tolle

"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now. ~ Eckhart Tolle

You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?" ~ Eckhart Tolle

Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought. ~ Eckhart Tolle

You are the universe expressing itself as a human for a little while. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Jesus' words, "Forgive them for they do not know what they do," also apply to yourself."
― Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks ~ Eckhart Tolle

True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love. ~ Eckhart Tolle

abundance comes only to those who already have it ~ Eckhart Tolle

Become at ease with the state of "not knowing. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Nobody can act beyond their level of consciousness. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Practice presence
embrace the place where life happens. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose ~ Eckhart Tolle

Get out of your head and into the moment. ~ Eckhart Tolle

You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Where ever you are, be there totally. ~ Eckhart Tolle

BEAUTY ARISES IN THE STILLNESS OF YOUR PRESENCE ~ Eckhart Tolle

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now. ~ Eckhart Tolle

You are only allowed to see a sanitized version of death. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Anything "bad" that happens in your life - use it for enlightenment. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet ~ Eckhart Tolle

Negativity is never the optimum way of dealing with any situation. ~ Eckhart Tolle

present moment holds the key to liberation. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you identify with turns into ego. ~ Eckhart Tolle

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens. ~ Eckhart Tolle

What difference does their approval or disapproval truly make to who you are? ~ Eckhart Tolle

The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts. ~ Eckhart Tolle

◦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is ~ Eckhart Tolle

true love, which has no opposite because it arises from beyond the mind. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Love and do what you will, ~ Eckhart Tolle

When you awaken, nature awakens, too. ~ Eckhart Tolle

CAN YOU HEAR THE MOUNTAIN STREAM? ~ Eckhart Tolle

You cannot love your partner one moment and attack him or her the next. ~ Eckhart Tolle

It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry, or hard-done-by person. You ~ Eckhart Tolle

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating. ~ Eckhart Tolle

When you live as a friend of the now, many changes come into your life. ~ Eckhart Tolle

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously. ~ Eckhart Tolle

You are not your mind ~ Eckhart Tolle

Every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Beautiful flowers that are not anxious about tomorrow but live with ease in the timeless Now ~ Eckhart Tolle

That one step is called surrender. I do not mean to say that you will become happy in such a situation. You will not. But fear and pain will become transmuted into inner peace. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire ~ Eckhart Tolle

You don't need fear to avoid unnecessary danger - just a minimum of intelligence and common sense. ~ Eckhart Tolle

If not now, when? ~ Eckhart Tolle

The Power of Now ~ Eckhart Tolle

Struggle or stress is a sign that the ego has returned, as are negative reactions when we encounter obstacles ~ Eckhart Tolle

Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Most people don't inhabit a living reality, but a conceptualized one. ~ Eckhart Tolle

The good news is: If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Awareness means Presence, and only Presence can dissolve the unconscious past in you. ~ Eckhart Tolle

You are this universe experiencing itself, very briefly, as a human. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation. ~ Eckhart Tolle

The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire."-Eckhart Tolle ~ Eckhart Tolle

Salvation is not elsewhere in place or time. It is here and now. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is true prosperity. ~ Eckhart Tolle

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

Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you. ~ Eckhart Tolle

The positive already contains within itself the as yet unmanifested negative. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, ~ Eckhart Tolle

All problems are illusions of the mind. ~ Eckhart Tolle

If the shutters are closed, the sunlight cannot come in. ~ Eckhart Tolle

A situation needs to be either dealt with or accepted. Why make it into a problem? ~ Eckhart Tolle

The ego could be defined simply in this way: a dysfunctional relationship with the present moment. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century spiritual teacher, summed it all up beautifully: "Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time. ~ Eckhart Tolle

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well-being and inner peace, the source of true happiness. ~ Eckhart Tolle

The energy form that lies behind hostility and attack finds the presence of love absolutely intolerable. If ~ Eckhart Tolle

Presence is a state of inner spaciousness ~ Eckhart Tolle

As you read, a shift takes place within you. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Being must be felt. It can't be thought. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Ego implies complete unawareness of the dimension of space ~ Eckhart Tolle

Perceiving presence is what true awakening is all about. ~ Eckhart Tolle

And it is from inner space, the unconditioned consciousness itself, that true happiness, the joy of Being, emanates. ~ Eckhart Tolle

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

When you realize it's not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Most people find it difficult to believe that a state of consciousness totally free of all negativity is possible. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Through right nutrition and exercise. If you don't equate the body with who you are, when beauty fades, vigor diminishes, ~ Eckhart Tolle

The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. ~ Eckhart Tolle

The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else. ~ Eckhart Tolle

No excuses. No negativity. No psychic pollution. Keep your inner space clear. ~ Eckhart Tolle

True change happens within not without ~ Eckhart Tolle

The moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what is, you are free of the mind. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Because we all carry the Truth within us as our essence, we recognize it immediately. ~ Eckhart Tolle

You cannot do this in the future. You do it now or not at all. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself. ~ Eckhart Tolle

When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises, ~ Eckhart Tolle

The relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy. ~ Eckhart Tolle

In the proximity of death, the whole concept of ownership stands revealed as ultimately meaningless. ~ Eckhart Tolle

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first. ~ Eckhart Tolle

It's interesting that stepping out of thought was actually triggered by a thought. ~ Eckhart Tolle