Eckhart Tolle

Wherever you are, be there totally.

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.

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

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

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

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

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Revolutions go not backward.

The less government we have the better.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

If you weren’t such a great man, you’d be a terrible bore.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I’ve done it a thousand times.

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God’s message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.