Eckhart Tolle

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.

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.

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

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

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.

Reading Proust isn’t just reading a book, it’s an experience and you can’t reject an experience.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world’s eye.

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. A lady of my acquaintance said, I don’t care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it.

Pity is for living, envy is for dead.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.