Eckhart Tolle

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.

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

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

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

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

Wherever you are, be there totally.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we’re so fond of it.

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself, and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

How many are the things I can do without!

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.