Eckhart Tolle

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

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

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

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.

Wherever you are, be there totally.

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

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

It’s like something shifted when I spoke to you, I can’t even put words to it. This sense of gentle peace, space, lightness, freedom. The realization that the longing I carried for so long, that pain was not about him all along. It was the yearning to return to that place from which, once upon a time, we all came.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.