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
The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?
If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.
When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.
The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.
Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.
We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.
Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not concentration or straining. Attention has the openness of a young child not yet dominated by the conceptual mind.
Feel the Aliveness within your Body. That anchors You in the Now.
Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.
If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.
Forgive yourself for not being at peace.
Awareness and ego cannot coexist.
To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wonderous dream arises.
The moment you become aware of the silence, you also have become silent.