Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolleis a German-born resident of Canada, 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 Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world. In 2008, a New York Times writer called Tolle "the most popular spiritual author in the United States"...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth16 February 1948
CityLunen, Germany
CountryGermany
Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.
If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time.
Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.
And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
Become conscious of being conscious.
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
To love is to recognize yourself in another.
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.