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
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.
Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.
Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.
Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.
You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.