Eckhart Tolle

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

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

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

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.

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.

What you can’t pay back you pay forward.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Who has not felt the beauty of a woman’s arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

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

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

A mother’s yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

Wherever you are, be there totally.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

We love and lose in China, we weep on England’s moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we’re the same.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.