Eckhart Tolle quotes.

“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

“Wherever you are, be there totally.”

“The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. “Seeking” implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment”

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

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

“The past has no power over the present moment. ”

“The more you are focused on time - past and future - the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. ”

“Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.”

“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life. ”

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

“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.”

“Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.”

“People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.”

“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker.”

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”

“Identification with our mind causes thought to become compulsive.”

“What a liberation to realize that 'the voice in my head' is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.”

“Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”

“All problems are illusions of the mind.”

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”