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Eckhart Tolle Quotes

born 1948 Germany

Eckhart Tolle (born Ulrich Leonard Tölle on 16 February 1948) is a German / Canadian spiritual teacher, motivational speaker, and writer.

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Also known as: Tolle, Ulrich Tolle

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Because the ego was never as deeply rooted in woman, it is losing its hold on women more quickly than on men.

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (2005)

Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

The Power of Now (1997)

Hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

The Power of Now (1997)

Things are changing rapidly now. With many people becoming more conscious, the ego is losing its hold on the human mind.

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (2005)

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.

A New Earth (2005)

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life.

A New Earth (2005)

The now is inseparable from who you are at the deepest level.

Stillness Speaks (2003)

Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love.

Stillness Speaks (2003)

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

A New Earth (2005)

If you are trapped in a nightmare you will probably be more strongly motivated to awaken than someone who is just caught in the ups and downs of an ordinary dream.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997)

For those who hold on to the old patterns, there will be increasing pain, violence, confusion, and madness.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

The Power of Now (1997)

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.

The Power of Now (1997)

Make it your practice to withdraw attention from past and future whenever they are not needed. Step out of the time dimension as much as possible in everyday life.

The mind is incessantly looking not only for food for thought; it is looking for food for its identity, its sense of self. This is how the ego comes into existence and continuously re-creates itself.

Stillness Speaks (2003)

All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

A New Earth (2005)

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

A New Earth (2005)

To recognize one’s own insanity, is of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

A New Earth (2005)

I call love the recognizing of yourself in the other, and yourself your essential self.

To Love is to recognize yourself in another.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eckhart Tolle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.