Eckhart Tolle Quotes

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

The human condition: lost in thought.