Eckhart Tolle

Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the insanity of the human mind.

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

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

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.

But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says.

Have good trust in yourself … not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.

The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off.

The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.