Eckhart Tolle Quotes

02 Feb 2006 Thursday

2006-02-01T21:43:00.000-08:00

Why not just be here, with tenderness, generosity, and compassion? Why not simply rest in the eternal magic of uncompromising attention and affection? Why not fall unguardedly in love with the endless peace into which all things are born, your very own Self? We are all the very Same One. Why hold back?

expressed by Saniel Bonder

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.

21.Jan.06

2006-01-22T02:05:00.000-08:00

Have you ever experienced, done, thought, or felt anything outside the Now? Do you think you ever will? Is it possible for anything to happen or be outside the Now?
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inspiriation quotations

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms or books that are written in a foreign tongue. The point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live your way some distant day into the answers.
R.M.Rilke

20.Jan.2006

2006-01-20T21:03:00.000-08:00

The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity—the thinker. Knowing this enables you to observe the entity. The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.
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19 th January 2006 Thursday

2006-01-18T23:56:00.000-08:00

In the normal, mind-identified or unenlightened state ofconsciousness, the power and infinite creative potential that lie concealed in the Now are completely obscured by psychological time. Your life then loses its vibrancy, its freshness, its sense of wonder. The old patterns of thought, emotion, behavior, reaction, and desire are acted out in endless repeat performances, a script in your mind that gives you an identity of sorts but distorts or covers up the reality of the Now.
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Habits are first cobwebs, than cables.

16.Jan.2006. Monday

2006-01-16T00:41:00.000-08:00

Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation.

looking inner and outer ( 14.Jan.06.Sat)

2006-01-13T23:30:00.000-08:00

Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react. Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future. Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them.

Satsang

It is the absolute of you that takes you to the absolute beyond you--absolute truth, love, selflessness are the decisive factors in self-realization. With earnestness these can be reached.

expressed by Nisargadatta Maharaj selected by Candice O'Denver

Practicing the present ( 07.Jan.06.Sat)

2006-01-07T00:25:00.000-08:00

Break the old pattern of present-moment denial and present-moment resistance. Make it your practice to withdraw attention from past and future whenever they are not needed. Step out of the time dimension as much as possible in everyday life

gap between stream of thoughts ( 27.Dec.2005)

2005-12-26T23:53:00.000-08:00

Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation

16.Dec.05

2005-12-16T01:50:00.000-08:00

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. It comes between you and yourself, between you and your fellow man and woman, between you and nature, between you and God.

15.Dec.05.Thu

2005-12-14T23:54:00.000-08:00

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe. I call it stillness, but it is a jewel with many facets: that stillness is also joy, and it is love.
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(SATSANG)

Except for the point,
the still point,
There would be no dance,
and there is only the dance

25.Oct.2005 to

2005-10-24T21:19:00.001-07:00

25.oct.2005 TUE
What you perceive as future is an intrinsic part of your state of consciousness now. If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future—which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now

Eckhart Tolle
Oct 24, 2005
If all your problems or perceived causes of suffering or unhappiness were miraculously removed for you today, but you had not become more present, more conscious, you would soon find yourself with a similar set of problems or causes of suffering, like a shadow that follows you wherever you go. Ultimately, there is only one problem: the time-bound mind itself. There is no salvation in time. You cannot be free in the future. Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.

Eckhart Tolle
Oct 23, 2005
In the normal, mind-identified or unenlightened state ofconsciousness, the power and infinite creative potential that lie concealed in the Now are completely obscured by psychological time. Your life then loses its vibrancy, its freshness, its sense of wonder. The old patterns of thought, emotion, behavior, reaction, and desire are acted out in endless repeat performances, a script in your mind that gives you an identity of sorts but distorts or covers up the reality of the Now

Eckhart Tolle
Oct 22, 2005
Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind—or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.

Eckhart Tolle
Oct 21, 2005
Use your senses fully. Be where you are. Look around. Just look, don't interpret. See the light, shapes, colors, textures. Be aware of the silent presence of each thing. Be aware of the space that allows everything to be. Listen to the sounds; don't judge them. Listen to the silence underneath the sounds. Touch something—anything—and feel and acknowledge its Being.

Eckhart Tolle
Oct 20, 2005
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly—you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Eckhart Tolle
Oct 19, 2005
Go beyond good and bad by refraining from mentally labeling anything as good or bad. The moment you look beyond mental labels, you feel that ineffable dimension of nature that cannot be understood by thought or perceived through the senses. It is a harmony, a sacredness that permeates not only the whole of nature but is also within you.

Eckhart Tolle
Oct 18, 2005
To regain awareness of Being and to abide in that state of 'feeling-realization' is enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle
Oct 17, 2005
Nobody chooses dysfunction, conflict, pain. Nobody chooses insanity. They happen because there is not enough presence in you to dissolve the past, not enough light to dispel the darkness

Eckhart Tolle
Oct 16, 2005
Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

Eckhart Tolle
Oct 15, 2005
In the absence of psychological time, your sense of self is derived from Being, not from your personal past. Therefore, the psychological need to become anything other than who you are already is no longer there. In the world, on the level of your life situation, you may indeed become wealthy, knowledgeable, successful, free of this or that, but in the deeper dimension of Being you are complete and whole now.

Eckhart Tolle
Oct 14, 2005
Learn to use time in the practical aspects of your life—we may call this 'clock time'—but immediately return to present moment awareness when those practical matters have been dealt with. In this way, there will be no buildup of 'psychological time,' which is identification with the past and continuous compulsive projection into the future.

Eckhart Tolle
Oct 13, 2005
The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind.

Eckhart Tolle
Oct 12, 2005
The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now!

Eckhart Tolle
Oct 11, 2005
When the compulsive striving away from the Now ceases, the joy of Being flows into everything you do. The moment your attention turns to the Now, you feel a presence, a stillness, a peace. You no longer depend on the future for fulfillment and satisfaction—you don't look to it for salvation. Therefore, you are not attached to the results. Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being. You have found the life underneath your life situation.

Eckhart Tolle
Oct 10, 2005
Do not give all your attention away to the mind and the external world. By all means focus on what you are doing, but feel the inner body at the same time whenever possible. Stay rooted within. Then observe how this changes your state of consciousness and the quality of what you are doing

25.Oct.2005 to

2005-10-24T21:19:00.000-07:00

quotes ; 16 to 25.Aug.2005

2005-08-25T00:51:00.000-07:00

25.Aug.2005.Thu
You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

Aug 24, 2005
Watch out for any kind of defensiveness within yourself. What are you defending? An illusory identity, an image in your mind, a fictitious entity. By making this pattern conscious, by witnessing it, you disidentify from it. In the light of your consciousness, the unconscious pattern will then quickly dissolve.

Aug 23, 2005
When every cell of your body is so present that it feels vibrant with life, and when you can feel that life every moment as the joy of Being, then it can be said that you are free of time. To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of the past for your identity and the future for your fulfillment. It represents the most profound transformation of consciousness that you can imagine

Aug 22, 2005
Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

Aug 21, 2005
Through self-observation, more presence comes into your life automatically. The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.

Aug 20, 2005
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. It comes between you and yourself, between you and your fellow man and woman, between you and nature, between you and God.

Aug 19, 2005
Break the old pattern of present-moment denial and present-moment resistance. Make it your practice to withdraw attention from past and future whenever they are not needed. Step out of the time dimension as much as possible in everyday life

Aug 18, 2005
No quotation for today.

12-16.Aug.05

2005-08-17T01:43:00.000-07:00

16.Aug.05
The world can only change from within.

Eckhart Tolle
Aug 15, 2005
Nobody's life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn't it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them? The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

Eckhart Tolle
Aug 14, 2005
It's all there is. The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant.

Eckhart Tolle
Aug 12, 2005
Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still.

Life & Life Situation ( 17.Aug.05.Wed)

2005-08-17T01:42:00.000-07:00

What you refer to as your 'life' should more accurately be called your 'life situation.' It is psychological time: past and future. Certain things in the past didn't go the way you wanted them to go. You are still resisting what happened in the past, and now you are resisting what is. Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness. Forget about your life situation for a while and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real.

dis-identify mind ( 31.July.05Sun)

2005-08-13T01:22:00.000-07:00

Jul 31, 2005

The single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: Learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger.

2005-08-13T01:21:00.000-07:00

Aug 1, 2005

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.

2005-08-13T01:20:00.000-07:00

Aug 2, 2005

The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind.

2005-08-13T01:17:00.000-07:00

Aug 3, 2005

You will observe that the future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

04.Aug.05.Thu

2005-08-13T01:13:00.000-07:00

Aug 4, 2005

Having access to that formless realm is truly liberating. It frees you from bondage to form and identification with form. It is life in its undifferentiated state prior to its fragmentation into multiplicity. We may call it the Unmanifested, the invisible Source of all things, the Being within all beings. It is a realm of deep stillness and peace, but also of joy and intense aliveness.

05.Aug.05.Fri

2005-08-13T01:11:00.000-07:00

Aug 5, 2005

If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.

06.Aug.05.Sat

2005-08-13T01:10:00.000-07:00

Aug 6, 2005

Use your senses fully. Be where you are. Look around. Just look, don't interpret. See the light, shapes, colors, textures. Be aware of the silent presence of each thing. Be aware of the space that allows everything to be. Listen to the sounds; don't judge them. Listen to the silence underneath the sounds. Touch something—anything—and feel and acknowledge its Being.

07.Aug.05.Mon

2005-08-13T01:09:00.000-07:00

Aug 7, 2005

Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those thing but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

2005-08-13T00:57:00.000-07:00

Aug 8, 2005

Enlightenment is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.

09.Aug.05.Tue

2005-08-13T00:55:00.000-07:00

Aug 9, 2005

It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.

10.Aug.05.Wed

2005-08-13T00:53:00.000-07:00

Aug 10, 2005

Once you have disidentified from your mind, whether you are right or wrong makes no difference to your sense of self at all, so the forcefully compulsive and deeply unconscious need to be right, which is a form of violence, will no longer be there. You can state clearly and firmly how you feel or what you think, but there will be no aggressiveness or defensiveness about it. Your sense of self is then derived from a deeper and truer place within yourself, not from the mind.

11.AUG.05.Thu

2005-08-13T00:52:00.000-07:00

Aug 11, 2005

Watch out for any kind of defensiveness within yourself. What are you defending? An illusory identity, an image in your mind, a fictitious entity. By making this pattern conscious, by witnessing it, you disidentify from it. In the light of your consciousness, the unconscious pattern will then quickly dissolve.

12.Aug.05.Fri

2005-08-13T00:49:00.000-07:00

Aug 12, 2005

Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still.

13.Aug.05.Sat

2005-08-13T00:42:00.000-07:00

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and it is available to you now.

problem & tool (30.july.05)

2005-07-30T23:36:00.000-07:00

The problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level of the mind.

single imp.step(31.July.05)

2005-07-30T23:34:00.000-07:00

The present,intolerable? ( 29.July.05.fri)

2005-07-29T08:07:00.000-07:00

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: ramove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

prerequisites to delve deeper

2005-07-25T22:50:00.000-07:00

To go beyond the mind and reconnect with the deeper reality of Being, very special qualities are needed—surrender, nonjudgment, an openness that allows life to be instead of resisting it, the capacity to hold all things in the loving embrace of your knowing

25.July.05.Mon ( problem making mind )

2005-07-25T00:46:00.000-07:00

You may find it hard to recognize that time is the cause of your suffering or your problems. You believe that they are caused by specific situations in your life, and seen from a conventional viewpoint, this is true. But until you have dealt with the basic problem-making dysfunction of the mind—its attachment to past and future and denial of the Now—problems are actually interchangeable.

The Narrow gate that leads to life ( 24.July.05.Sun)

2005-07-24T00:23:00.000-07:00

Eckhart Tolle
Today
Find the 'narrow gate that leads to life.' It is called the Now. Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems—most life situations are—but find out if you have any problem at this moment. Not tomorrow or in ten minutes, but now. Do you have a problem now?

staying rooted within ( 23.july.05.Sat)

2005-07-23T04:58:00.000-07:00

" Do not give all your attention to your mind and to the external world. By all means focus on what you are doing, but feel the inner body at the same time whenever possible. Stay rooted within. Then observe how this changes your state of consciousnes and the quality of what you are doing ! "

21.July.05.Thu

2005-07-21T01:11:00.000-07:00

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal.

18.July.2005

2005-07-20T00:35:00.000-07:00

Eckhart Tolle
Jul 18, 2005
You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation. Underneath your outer form, you are connected with something so vast, so immeasurable and sacred, that it cannot be spoken of—yet I am speaking of it now. I am speaking of it now not to give you something to believe in but to show you how you can know it for yourself !

19.July.05.Tue

2005-07-20T00:31:00.000-07:00

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created, as long as unobserved mind runs your life.

20.July.2005.Wed

2005-07-20T00:30:00.000-07:00

" Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor there will ever be ! "

Introduction to Eckhart Tolle Quotes

2005-07-20T00:26:00.000-07:00

Diclaimer. That site,
http://www.eckhart-tolle-quotes.com
is NOT Eckhart Tollle's official site. It's being maintained by his friends and fans and admirers. Another unique thing is, it cannot be ' cut & pasted'.
So, I decided to ' write' the whole brief quote every day. And old quoted are not ' archieved' in calender format.
According to Wikipedia article, Eckhart Tolle, along with Jiddu Krishnamurhty, and Nisargadatta Maharaj, was considered as one of the " enlightened" beings of modern age.
Decided to write it down. Better than writing down in hand diary.