Eckhart Tolle

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.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.

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

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.

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

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

All say, How hard it is that we have to die – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.

Don’t be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don’t bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don’t waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.