Eckhart Tolle

I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.

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.

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.

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.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.