Eckhart Tolle

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

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.

I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.

Wherever you are, be there totally.

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.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Nature has always had more force than education.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Why is that others have so much faith in me, while I have so little? Why can’t I have the same belief in me that they have? Why can’t I see in myself, what they do? What is it that makes me, hold myself back? How many more hurdles do I need to overcome? There are so many questions that I have to find the answers to. And I will only find them by focusing and being completely honest with myself.

When you’re first figuring yourself out, you care so much about what people think of you.

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

Do Good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.