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
Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind. That is when the greater intelligence can operate though you. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.
Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?
In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.
You are awareness, disguised as a person.
The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them.
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.
You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.