Eckhart Tolle

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

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

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

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.

A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

A man who has no office to go to – I don’t care who he is – is a trial of which you can have no conception.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. They prefer suffering that is familiar to the unknown.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good;be good for something.All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. Let nothing come between you and the light. Respect men and brothers only. When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,

Dharma is what the Buddha taught. It is the way of understanding and love-how to understand, how to love, how to make understanding and love into real things.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

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