Eckhart Tolle

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

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

Wherever you are, be there totally.

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

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

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

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

Well, dinner would have been splendid!

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, — whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

I always forgive others. The anger; sadness; frustration; pain, whatever feelings I felt, no matter the hurt; the tears, I always found understanding and reason to forgive them; to not hold onto it; to not resent them. But there is one, who I never seem to be able to give absolution, and that’s myself.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

It is easier to stay out than get out.